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Joy Quotes by Anne Lamott
- You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come…
- Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy…
- Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy…
- Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.
- These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.
- I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or…
- And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there…
- I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown…
- Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003
- Joy is the best makeup.
- Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess…
- The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.
- Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
More Joy Quotes
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying. — Neil Armstrong
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- To live happily is an inward power of the soul. — Marcus Aurelius
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila