Joyful Quotes
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We Futurists , Balla and Depero, seek to realize this total fusion in order to reconstruct the universe by making it more joyful, in other words by an integral re-creation. 'We will give skeleton and flesh to the invisible, the impalpable, the imponderable and the imperceptible. We will find abstract equivalents for all the forms and elements of the universe, and then well will combine them according to the caprice of our inspiration, to shape plastic complexes which we will set in motion.
— Fortunato Depero and Giacomo Balla. The Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe in: Direzione del Movimento Futurista, March 11, 1915. Translation by Caroline Tisdall, 1973.
How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run! Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain: But now the fair traveller's come to the west, His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best; He paints the skies gay as he sinks to his rest, And foretells a bright rising again.
Isaac Watts— Moral Songs, A Summer Evening.
Through all Eternity toThee A joyful Song I'll raise, For oh! Eternity's too short To utter all thy Praise.
joseph addison— 1712 In The Spectator, no.453, 9 Aug.
O come let us sing unto the L: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. Psalms
Bible (Old Testament)— ORDPsalms 95:1-2.
Make a joyful noise unto the L, all ye lands. Serve the L with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the L he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Bible (Old Testament)— Psalms100:1-3.
Our aim is to create an island of tranquility in our own country which, amid the joyful hum of arts and crafts, would be welcome to anyone who professes faith in Ruskin and Morris.
— Declaration in work programme of Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop, 1903)
I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.
frida kahlo— Last words in her diary (July 1954)
Oh could I fly, I'd fly with thee!We'd make with joyful wingOur annual visit o'er the globe,Companions of the spring.
john logan— To the Cuckoo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Macrobiotic living is the process of changing ourselves so that we can eat anything we like without fear of becoming ill; it enables us to live a joyful life during which we can achieve anything we choose."
george ohsawa— p. 82 (Essential Ohsawa - From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom - Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics (1994))
"Nude" is about an relationship I was in during that period and there is a joyful beginning and creepy end … yeah life can be cruel, but god dammit how I love to write when my life is miserable.
jaani peuhu— Iconcrash: Interview with Jaani Peuhu (2007-04-06). Retrieved on 2008-02-12.
At this good news, so greatThe Devil's pleasure grew,That, with a joyful swish, he rentThe hole where his tail came through.
Robert Southey— St. 31.
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— Old Familiar Faces (1798).
The very thought of this Alaska garden is a joyful exhilaration. ... Out of all the cold darkness and glacial crushing and grinding comes this warm, abounding beauty and life to teach us that what we in our faithless ignorance and fear call destruction is creation finer and finer.
john muir— Travels in Alaska (1915), chapter 16: Glacier Bay
When a person is haughty, he distances himself from other people and thereby deprives himself of one of life’s biggest pleasures open, joyful communication with everyone.
leo tolstoy— p. 108 (Path of Life (1909))
Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy.
william tyndale— Selected Writings (2003) edited by David Daniell
We pray for our enemies; we seek to persuade those who hate us without cause to live conformably to the goodly precepts of Christ, that they may become partakers with us of the joyful hope of blessings from God, the Lord of all.
— Justin Martyr, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 207
Never waste a crisis. It can be turned to joyful transformation .
— Rahm Israel Emanuel, from an article in the New York Times (March 17th 2009).
Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring.
john logan— John Logan, To the Cuckoo; attributed also to Michael Bruce.
Oh could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make with joyful wing Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring.
— To the Cuckoo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
A certain joyful, though humble, confidence becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. It is due to Him; when we pray in His name it should be without wavering. Remember His merits, and how prevalent they must be. " Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace."
— Nehemiah Adams, p. 460. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
A joyful heart makes a cheerful face; A sad heart makes a despondent mood. All the days of a poor person are wretched, but contentment is a feast without end.
— Rabbi Meir Leibush (Malbim), Proverbs 15:13 and 15.
I ask Thee for a thankful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the weeping eyes, And a heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathize.
— Anna Laetitia Waring, Father I know that all my Life, Hymns and Meditations (1850), p. 2.
In joyful strains then let us sing, "Advance Australia fair!"
— Advance Australia Fair (Australian national anthem, lyric by Peter Dodds McCormick).
Horæ Memento cita mors venit, aut victoria læta. In the hour's short space comes swift death, or joyful victory.
— Horace, Satires, Book I. 1. 7.
One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
— Anthony de Mello, in One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 177
In joyful strains then let us sing, "Advance Australia fair!"
— Advance Australia Fair (Australia, lyric by Peter Dodds McCormick)
I hope the exit is joyful and hope never to return.
— Who: Frida Kahlo
