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Quotes about Joy


The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow.

A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Charles M. Dickinson

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me (Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club).

Amy Tan

It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot It takes time to build a castle. •Irish Proverb A minute now is better than a minute later. •Anonymous Time is of the essence, but what is the essence of time? •Karan Varsheni Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. •Anonymous I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer. •Dan Quisenberry Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like an orange. •Unknown If you're not five minutes early, you're ten minutes late. •Anonymous To be on time is to be late. To be early is to be on time. •Tim Gunter The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. •Leo Kennedy Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? •Stoppard Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. •Berlioz One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. •Anonymous You may delay, but time will not. •Benjamin Franklin With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. •Chinese proverb Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. •Cheers You can never plan the future by the past. •Edmund Burke Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. •Roger Babson The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. •Paul Valery Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. •M Scott Peck Time is the fire in which we burn. •Gene Roddenberry You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. •Charles Buxton Time ripens all things. No man's born wise. •Cervantes Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon at the speed of light while rotating. Time is like that, except without the cannon and the donut. •Dilbert Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. •Will Rogers You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. •James Thurber Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. •Thomas Mann Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. •W N Taylor Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

George Eliot

Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.

John Dryden

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks aftr unpacking.

George Ade

The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.

George Ade

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

William Congreve

Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. Philippians 4:2

Daniel Bible

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; On, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence.

Hannah More

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.

Heinrich Heine

Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.

John Gay

Variety alone gives joy; The sweetest meats the soonest cloy.

Matthew Prior

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

John Kenneth Galbraith

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:23, 2

Minna Bible

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.

Richard Halloway

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Leo Buscaglia

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

John F. Kennedy

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Albert Einstein

Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

Benjamin Franklin

'Tis rushing now adown the spout, And gushing out below, Half frantic in its joyousness, And wild in eager flow. The earth is dried and parched with heat, And it hath long'd to be Released from out the selfish cloud, To cool the thirsty tree.

Elizabeth Oakes Smith

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