JOY QUOTES IV

We seldom meet with joy and delight by appointment, but unexpectedly they smile on us their sudden welcome round some odd corner of life.

MISS PALMER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Troubles loom up big when they're ahead,
And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.

EDGAR GUEST

"The Present"


Joy is circulatory. There is the joy. Then disbelief that says you must be dreaming. Then the mental pause or step back to give the universe a chance to wake you. Then the return to see if the joy is still there--and there is the joy again, insanely real and undeservedly all yours.

GLEN DUNCAN

Talulla Rising


Joy's recollection is no longer joy,
While Sorrow's memory is a sorrow still.

LORD BYRON

Marino Faliero


Joy flees from the selfish, it deserts the quarrelsome; it is hidden from the impure.

JAMES ALLEN

Morning and Evening Thoughts


Here below is not the land of happiness; I know it not; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE

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Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.

STEPHENIE MEYER

The Host


Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings.

ROLLO MAY

Man's Search For Himself

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This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.

DORIS LESSING

Shikasta


Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

ECKHART TOLLE

The Power of Now


It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"Badlands", Darkness on the Edge of Town


Joy comes and fills the self-emptied heart; it abides with the peaceful; its reign is with the pure.

JAMES ALLEN

Morning and Evening Thoughts


Joy cannot remain with the selfish; it is wedded to Love.

JAMES ALLEN

Morning and Evening Thoughts


What matters an eternity of damnation to someone who has found in one second the infinity of joy?

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

"Le Mauvais Vitrier," Le Spleen de Paris