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My three children have brought me great joy. -- Stephen Hawking
Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it. -- Dawn French
I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow. -- Fanny Burney
Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking. -- Vincent McNabb
To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy. -- Martin Mull
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. -- Jim Rohn
I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection. -- Hakeem Olajuwon
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. -- Henry Fielding
I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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 was never involved in any fights in high school. I'm glad I wasn't. I'm not very big, and I don't find great joy in cuts and bruises. -- John Bytheway
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Every person - with his or her own skills, abilities and uniqueness - can contribute to others and bring great joy to those that fortune has not smiled upon. -- Shari Arison
Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not. -- Kenny Rogers
Connecting with the kids is a great joy for me. I love meeting them backstage or at a signing event. I am overwhelmed when I meet kids who struggle with terminal illnesses. -- Jodi Benson
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb. -- Kathy Mattea
For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers. -- Michael Bay
For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith. -- Pope Benedict XVI
To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about. -- Tom Wolfe
When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things. -- Charles Spurgeon
If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free. -- Vinoba Bhave
Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it's been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It's a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly. -- Arnold Palmer
As you seek to know the will of our Heavenly Father in your life and become more spiritual, you will be far more attractive, even irresistible. You can use your smiling loveliness to bless those you love and all you meet, and spread great joy. -- James E. Faust
That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love, and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good. -- Julia Roberts
Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me. -- Kailash Kher
The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world. -- Aasif Mandvi
Great joy comes from God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
It's in great joy that we grasp truth. -- Mark Leyner
I feel joy when I do a great show. -- Ozzy Osbourne
It is great joy to love and be loved. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
When you have great joy, you will become Buddhas! -- Gautama Buddha
Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction. -- Ursula Andress
It is a great joy to love and be loved. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Great God! Thank you for the joy in my heart. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time. -- Edward Abbey
I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow. -- Fanny Burney
When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. Matthew 2:10 -- Matthew 2 10
Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born. -- David Whyte
Great photos of the great moments always give us a great joy! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger. -- Kate Bornstein
Life is a chain of small sorrows that lead to a great joy -- Siddharth Katragadda
Every day is a great day to give love, spread joy, and SPARKLE! -- Sheri Fink
There is no great fun, satisfaction, or joy derived from doing something that's easy. -- John Wooden
God takes great joy in the passionate romantic love between a husband and wife. -- Jim George
Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life. -- Joan D. Chittister
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. -- Aeschylus
Joy is a great purifier. It burns away many polluted currents trying to reach us. -- Torkom Saraydarian
Joy Is for the simple or the great to feel, Neither of which we are. -- Philip Larkin
You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy. -- Barry Hannah
Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story. -- Debasish Mridha
Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations. -- John Wooden
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure. -- Margaret Way
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You must...know that you are great. Never forget that. It is where true joy lies. -- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy. -- Jackie Gleason
Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs. -- James Hunter
Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets. -- William Wordsworth
May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. -- Pope Paul VI
No joy so great but runneth to an end,No hap so hard but may in fine amend. -- Robert Southwell
There is great joy in doing something for somebody else with no thought in receiving anything in return. -- John Wooden
Great is the Lord. He is worthy of praise. He is my hope, my joy and my strength. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I think we played a great game against Germany and brought joy to ourselves and the Brazilian people -- Ronaldo
At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth. -- Alan Seeger
So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward. -- Genevieve Gorder
There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town. -- Brooks Atkinson
Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun. -- Jack White
Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness - that happiness is a choice you make. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. -- W. H. Auden
Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk. -- Sufjan Stevens
It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points just as we are. -- Charles Spurgeon
I have the greatest appreciation for Governor [Sarah] Palin and her family. There`s great joy to know them. -- John McCain
When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious. -- Georges St-Pierre
My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors. -- Rob Marshall
The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare. -- Honore de Balzac
Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes. -- Terence McKenna
But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. -- Nancy Farmer
My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble. -- Yousuf Karsh
Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive. -- Diane Ackerman
The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other. -- Andre Dubus
The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give. -- Erich Fromm
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. -- Horace Greeley
The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined. -- Victor Garber
How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing -- George Grosz
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. -- Simone Weil
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking. -- Christopher Meloni
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great. -- George Muller
I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love. -- Anais Nin
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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
To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy. -- Nelson Mandela
Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on. -- Pope Benedict XVI
An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall. -- Selima Hill
That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him. -- Brother Lawrence
When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
I like colourful knickers, but most importantly a great pair of knickers should be taken off with more joy than they were put on. -- Elle Macpherson
when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus -- Corrie Ten Boom
I think people need to know that there's great peace and joy in knowing the Lord - the Lord Jesus Christ - as your savior. -- Tammy Faye Bakker
Joy is a very high frequency current of energy with a great deal of energy content. Somebody who is joyful has a lot of energy. -- Gary Zukav
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy. -- Dean Koontz
There's nothing like having a great friends when you see them, you get that joy - that you can't really compare it with anything else. -- Zooey Deschanel
Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation. -- Friedrich Schiller
The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. -- Bertrand Russell
I see this quality [ real interest and joy ] in the work of [Pavel] Chekhov, of course, and [Alexei] Tolstoy and really just about any great writer. -- George Saunders
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
It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! -- Christopher McCandless
Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy and spontaneity of your nature. -- Jane Roberts
Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day. -- Steve Carell
Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot. -- Chris Pine
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the story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, unsweetened by Disney. -- Ann Patchett
A car for the people, an affordable Volkswagen, would bring great joy to the masses and the problems of building such a car must be faced with courage. -- Adolf Hitler
Serving throughout the world is a great missionary force going about doing good. Missionaries teach truth. They dispel darkness. They spread joy. They bring precious souls to Christ. -- Thomas S. Monson
The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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