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Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy. — Socrates

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.'- Buddha — Elias Axmar

Like me, you are human, after all, and we know what a joy and terror that is. — Dean Koontz

Light is what gives joy to buildings. — Jaquelin T. Robertson

But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see. — Karen Joy Fowler

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family. — Andrew Vachss

Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch. — Max Lucado

What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful. — Katherine Paterson

It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we have. — Sonia Rumzi

Hope is what keeps the soul alive. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee! — William Blake

How beautiful it is to feel that what you cannot describe? — Saim .A. Cheeda

Life has to end. What a pity! Sometimes, when one is alone, the universe presses itself into one's hands: a plethora of joy, an organized plentitude. — Joanna Russ

You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of? — Laini Taylor

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. — George Leigh Mallory

What if your purpose is to take impeccable care of yourself so that you have the energy and joy to serve others? — Kris Carr

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well. — R. Buckminster Fuller

We take no pleasure in permitted joys,
But what's forbidden is more keenly sought. — Ovid

Living meaningfully is what brings joy. — Marianne Williamson

Happiness is wanting what you have. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

joy is a product not of whether characters live or die but of what they've realized and achieved, or how they are remembered. — Will Schwalbe

The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen. — Bill Joy

What else have you gained?'
'The joy of being alive. I know that I'm here, and that everything is a miracle, a revelation. — Paulo Coelho

Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters. — Oprah Winfrey

It is a great joy to work for what you want. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What is snowboarding to me? I'd say it's when I feel passion. That is, if passion is a combination of utter joy, frustration and rage. It's my life. — Travis Rice

What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by? — William Shakespeare

The joy I'm feeling is too intense to express.I don't know what'll happen next month, or even next week. What I know is that we both want to try. — Danila Botha

What is the message of Christmas? It is the birth of the One who promised peace, joy and love. — Ravi Zacharias

To have attained to the human form is a source of joy ... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions. — Zhuangzi

A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life. — Pope Francis

I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have? — Elizabeth Berg

That is what we believe in and what we are fighting for. The right to the joy of life. The right to our own life. The right to love. — Terry Goodkind

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. — Henry Miller

There is joy in every step you take in life by having passion for what life has to offer you. — Michael Bluemling Jr.

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them. — Richard Paul Evans

Do not let your peace depend on what people say of you ... True peace and joy is to be found in [Jesus] alone. — Thomas A Kempis

What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy. — Mary Anne Radmacher

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed. — Madonna

You know what? Joy is the only guide. I'm going to have fun regardless. — Joseph Fiennes

Being joy is about loving all of what is here. — Stephanie Filardi

It does no good to be right, if what you're craving is wrong. — Joy Browne

A friend is a companion for the journey,
never a means to our own.
What we take we take together,
the joy we reap, we have sown. — Tom Althouse

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is. — Greg Boyle

Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness. — Rainer Maria Rilke

How do you know what God's plan is?

Follow the joy. You know God's plan by doing the things that bring you great joy. — Margaret Brownley

For the possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself. — Marcel Proust

When the Self is freed from mind there are no limits to what one can experience. — Vivian Amis

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for. — Henry David Thoreau

I feel that joy is the basic emotion of life and of human beings. It's what supports everything. We are here to be happy. We are to enjoy "alegria." — Alex Abreu

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy. — Alice Walker

Never forsake what we have. There is no barter or trade worth exchanging what we mean to one another. — Truth Devour

Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less. — Neale Donald Walsch

Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens - even when things go wrong. — Jim George

What you feed your soul is what you harvest with your actions. — Shannon L. Alder

What is central to business is the joy of creating. — Peter Robinson

That's what life is for, to find that joy in yourself. — Goswami Kriyananda

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. — E.B. White

The joy of surmounting obstacles that once seemed unremovable and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further-what other joy is there like it? — Helen Keller

Having joy in God not because of circumstances but despite circumstances is what makes God look great - and it's a true joy that comes from within. — Jefferson Bethke

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all. — Rosamund Pike

There is no greater joy than to share what you love with those who appreciate it. — Bernard Jan

What joy that the Bible tells us the great comfort that the best is yet to be. Our outlook goes beyond this world. — Corrie Ten Boom

What it is
is the memory of a dance
a song you heard long ago
to hear it is to be young again
and for once
for once you are happy — Julio Alexi Genao

What I teach is how to go inside and reach that place I call "love consciousness." This is a place of peace and joy that is within all humans. — Isha Judd

In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that's left is their utility. War — Pierce Brown

Any time you have someone come up and say they love what you do and they get great joy from it is a very humbling experience. — Chris Hemsworth

I see what the joy is; it is the joy of always loving, it is the joy of losing my own life in love to others. — Andrew Murray

So that's what it is!" he suddenly exclaimed aloud. "What joy! — Leo Tolstoy

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about. — Chuck Jones

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento) — Christopher Nolan

Christian joy is letting Christ live His life out through you so that what He is, you become. — David Jeremiah

She placed her hand on her chest and thought, 'So this is what the poets write about'. — Kamand Kojouri

A thing doesn't have to be true, he said, for a person to get joy out of it. What it has to be is not evil or malicious. — Frank Delaney

But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue. — Joy Williams

Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens. — David Steindl-Rast

can't help but think once again what a foolish, loutish creature is man. Is there another on earth that kills for the pure joy of it? — Jim Fergus

I am forever grateful for not knowing - What would have been. WHAT WILL BE holds none of those bittersweet pangs and it is lit w joy. — Erica Goros

What joy is better than news of friends? — Robert Browning

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. — Marianne Williamson

One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give. — Mother Teresa

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. — George Eliot

Happiness is really about deciding to look beyond the imperfections and find beauty and joy in what is, right now. — Jeffrey A. White

We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom. — Dean Ornish

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink. — John Olsen

The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving. — Emanuel Swedenborg

What most people perceive as energy is really strength of spirit. It comes from the joy of knowing God, loving Him, and being loved by Him. — Kathie Lee Gifford

What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other. — Bertolt Brecht

Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy. — Jack Kerouac

Life is always good, if those who are living a round you are happy with what's going on. — Auliq Ice

I believe it is the woman in the relationship that drives the relationship to what she wants it to be — Lori Colombo-Dunham

Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy. — Myron Tribus

What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying. — Sri Chinmoy

Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives. — John McCain

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes. — Oswald Chambers

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about. — Herman Melville

When you experience the joy of bringing joy into someone else's life, then you know what joy is. — Nathaniel Phillips

Thanks is what multiplies the joy and makes any life large, and I hunger for it. — Ann Voskamp

What is life if not joy? — Katja Michael