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Joy Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.
- Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be…
- Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may…
- To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and…
- Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust…
- Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear…
- If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps…
- Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids.
- Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for…
- Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we…
- But everything that may some day be possible to many the solitary man can now prepare and build with his hands, that err less. Therefore,…
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