Quotes with joy-bearing

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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • William Wordsworth With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Confucius With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Alan Cohen Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Sean O'Casey Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Bertie Carvel Working with the children on 'Matilda' has been a joy. They don't do this professionally - their sense of discovery is instinctive, and the challenge for us adults is to keep that going in ourselves when we're doing it for the fiftieth or the hundredth time. To my delight and amazement, it hasn't gone stale - we discover it freshly every time.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Bob Shacochis Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.
    Bob Shacochis
    American writer (1951 - )
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  • Norman Vincent Peale You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Alan Cohen You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Brian Tracy You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Caitlin Fitzgerald You never stop thinking about technique, but really, the reason we're actors is because of the sheer joy of those few moments you get every now and again where you're totally present. The rest is just struggle and misery.
    Caitlin Fitzgerald
    American actress and filmmaker
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • William Wordsworth … with an eye made by quite by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Emily Dickinson 'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Billy Williams As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.
    Billy Williams
    American baseball player (1938 - )
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  • Helen Keller As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • William Blake Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Simone Weil Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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