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Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation. -- Amy Lowell
You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard. -- Paloma Faith
There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. -- Edward Hopper
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. -- Doug Larson
You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony. -- Joan Jett
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. -- Agnes Repplier
There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage. -- Neve Campbell
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
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Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb. -- Darren Hayes
Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation. -- Amy Lowell
It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential. -- Cyril Connolly
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood -- Chris Hadfield
To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion. -- John Rhys-Davies
Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation. -- Jonathan Aitken
There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it -- Robert Doisneau
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: hail to the morning! come down to me, my beautiful unknown. -- Jessica Powers
The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug. -- Helen Fisher
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light. -- Aberjhani
I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation. -- Frank Sinatra
Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth. -- Norman Mailer
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity. -- Isocrates
I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation. -- Brad Pitt
I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street. -- Daphne Gottlieb
The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters. Playful language. Joy and sorrow, pathos and elation. Episodes that dare to be different - to tell stories in silence or in song. Big themes and terrible choices. -- Virginia Postrel
The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation. -- Mark Helprin
So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation. -- Herbert Hoover
Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design. -- Henry Rollins
Praise with elation Praise every morning Spring's re-creation Of the First Day! -- Eleanor Farjeon
Joy is a perception of elation which keeps us moving with life. -- Debasish Mridha
The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair. -- Warren Buffett
Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart. -- Joseph Addison
So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest. -- Carol Bly
But away from the rituals of Washington, alongside the elation of [Donald] Trump supporters, there is deep anxiety, anger and fear. -- George Stephanopoulos
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair. -- Steven G. Krantz
Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine. -- Bill W.
While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of elation -- Arthur Godfrey
To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination. -- Vince Lombardi
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought." -- Agnes Repplier
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Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain. -- Adriana Trigiani
When people hit on feeling a certain melancholy or elation, it's a really exciting moment. I think making that connection is the goal, and what makes something great. -- Craig Finn
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the otherâ??s welcome. -- Derek Walcott
Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure. -- Thomas Wolfe
To die with elation is a crappy way of dying... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it. -- Carlos Castaneda
I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable. -- James Lipton
An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport. -- Aimee Mullins
Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety. -- William Rounseville Alger
Work is the vessel into which we pour so much of ourselves hope and disappointment, elation and rage, satisfaction and frustration. Yet any damp display of these emotions is seen as weakness. -- Lisa Belkin

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