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Joy Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even…
- The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
- A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the…
- One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
- This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will…
- Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be.
- This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob…
- To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is…
- Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are…
- Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.
- The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy…
- And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was…
- Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
- The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others,…
- The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
- Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must…
- Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
- What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived…
- Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any realized joy could be.
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