Joy Quotes

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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to… — Douglas MacArthur
My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach. — Seneca the Younger
I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching, absorbing; when the pain of… — Jennifer Worth
What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life… — Helen Keller
To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. — Andre Gide
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. — Alphonse Karr
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness. — Andre Gide
Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by… — Samuel Johnson
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes upon itself the… — Joseph Conrad
When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows. — Tristan Bernard
Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be. — Jules Renard
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent. — Pindar
We possess only the happiness we able to understand. — Maurice Maeterlinck
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. — Philibert Joseph Roux
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries. — Marquis de Sade
We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping? — William Shakespeare
Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully. — Thomas a Kempis

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