Quotes with joy-bearing

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  • Barbara Kingsolver A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.
    Source: The Poisonwood Bible
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • A. D. Hope Adam had learned the jolly deed of kind:
    He took her in his arms and there and then
    Like the clean beasts, embracing from behind,
    Began in joy to found the breed of men.
    Source: Imperial Adam (l. 25-28)
    A. D. Hope
    Australian poet and essayist (1907 - 2000)
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  • Lord George Byron All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Billy Porter All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Alec Guinness An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
    Alec Guinness
    English actor (1914 - 2000)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.
    Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (2014)
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ''It's pretty, but is it Art?''
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Arthur Hiller Anyway, he and I worked on the script together, and I must say he was a joy to work with. Very enthusiastic.
    Arthur Hiller
    Canadian-American television and film director (1923 - 2016)
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  • Boris Pasternak Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • William Morris Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • Susan Jeffers As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life.
    Susan Jeffers
     
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  • Owen Meredith Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
    Owen Meredith
    British writer, critic and politician (ps. of Edward Bulwer-Lytton) (1802 - 1873)
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  • Georges Bataille Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Ralph Ransom Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • Arthur E. Waite Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • Joy Baluch Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
    Joy Baluch
    Australian politician (1932 - 2013)
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  • Bai Ling Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Bai Ling But somehow I feel like still it's a gift, and I wonder, how can I give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Buddha Can there be joy and laughter When always the world is ablaze? Enshrouded in darkness Should you not seek a light?
    Source: Dhammapada
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bob Geldof Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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