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Joy Quotes by John Steinbeck
- I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that…
- I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked…
- I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets…
- She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since…
- It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which…
- Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time…
- He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't…
- Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a…
- I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret…
- We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest…
- Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can…
- The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no…
- And her joy was nearly like sorrow.
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