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Joy Quotes by Rene Descartes
- Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we…
- Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
- Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes…
- The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them…
- Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
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