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My Joy Quotes

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
- Jesse Jackson

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.
- Ursula Andress

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')
- William Blake

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, remember; and there is pansies, that's for thoughts...
There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's rue for you, and here's some for me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy. I would give you some violets, but they wither'd all when my father died. They say he made a good end, [Sings.]
For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
- William Shakespeare

For standing between Cody and his pain is my obligation, and standing between my uncle and his pain is my rent, but the pain I coax from Bronte is my joy
- Neal Shusterman

I was hitting.360 when I was diagnosed. I didn't forget how to play while I was recovering. I don't know if the cancer is gone for good. I don't think anyone ever knows, but no one is going to steal my joy for as along as I'm able to play baseball.
- Eric Davis

Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. No I know just how much sadness my death will cause you. Undoubtedly you will weep when you learn the news--apart, of course, from such ornamental sentimentality as you may indulge in--but if you will please try to think of my joy at being liberated completely from the suffering of living and this hateful life itself, I believe that your sorrow will gradually dissolve.
- Osamu Dazai

I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.
- W Paul Young

Sometimes (more in sport than from real concern) I defended myself against the charge of individualism and demanded from the others proof that I was an individualist. For want of concrete evidence they would say: " It's the way you behave." "How do I behave?" "You have a strange kind of smile". "And If I do? That's how I express my joy."
"No, your smile is though you were thinking to yourself.
- Milan Kundera

In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.
- Mary Shelley

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
- Olusegun Obasanjo

God's purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God's glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
- Jonathan Edwards

And there is no better reason for preferring this elderberry bush than that it stirs an early memory, that it is no novelty in my life, speaking to me merely through my present sensibilities to form and colour, but the long companion of my existence that wove itself into my joys when joys were vivid.
- George Eliot

And if we're truly one, how will I breathe when circumstance pries us apart? You are my oxygen, my sustenance, the blood inside my veins. When we touch, you are my skin, hold all my joy inside of you. When you go, I wither.
- Ellen Hopkins

You can share in my joy, but I don't want to share my misery. No, I want to give away my misery. Go ahead, take it all.
- Jarod Kintz

My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.
- Nikos Kazantzakis

Perhaps i am a masochist.
No. Not Possible. If I were basically a masochist then most of my life would have been just nothing but concentrated fun. Every time I woke up, bleeding from my heart and soul, I'd find myself barely able to hide my joy.
- A L Kennedy

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.
- Sally Kirkland

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
- Charles Lamb

I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.
- Christopher Meloni

I realized that my bliss and my heartbreak both point in the same direction. I follow my joy and my heartbreak simultaneously because they're two sides of the same coin.
- Steve Pavlina

My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That's all. You were made for
God. Don't waste it.
- John Piper

in the cold you wrap me. in my uncertainty you listen. in all my joys you celebrate. at every turn you meet me with competence and grace. what a fine dance we have together.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.
- Johannes Rau

Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
- Theodore Roethke

So you'll let me exert my will over you. I will gain a great deal of pleasure, joy even, in your submission. The more you submit, the greater my joy.... it's a very simple equation.
- James E Rogers

So you'll get your kicks by exerting your will over me."
"It's about gaining your trust and your respect, so you'll let me exert my will over you. I will gain a great deal of pleasure, joy, even in your submission. The more you submit, the greater my joy it's a very simple equation."
"Okay, and what do I get out of this?"
He shrugs and looks almost apologetic.
"Me," he says simply.
- James E Rogers

I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.
- Annabella Sciorra

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
- W Clement Stone

I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
- Giuseppe Verdi

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
- Lawrence Welk

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