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Joy Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Surely joy is the condition of life.
- In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.
- A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.
- The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.
- Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and…
- Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.
- Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
- If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more…
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