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I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy


Ashleigh Brilliant

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CLARA SCHUMANN That's the dilemma, isn't it? When you're single, there's the sadness and joy of "only me." And when...
DAVID LEVITHAN My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. -Ashleigh Brilliant.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
INGA MUSCIO If you get your joy from a paycheck and a pat on the head, go for it. I prefer hugs and dandelions.
LILY CHATTERJEE Rainbows paint the sky with different colors of love, sadness, and joy.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I often cry, not from sadness, from the joy of the miraculous beauty of life.
DEBASISH MRIDHA And he said, “The joy of scaring is a deep and lasting one, and I never tire of it.”

KAHLIL GIBRAN I know I'm going to cry but it'll be tears of joy not sadness.
JACKIE CHAPMAN There are moment of sadness and moment of joy. This is life.
BETH COHEN In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.
KAKUZō OKAKURA I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who coul...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I ran outta tears of sadness when I was 20 & all I got left is tears of joy.
GENEREUX PHILIP Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?
SOHEIR KHASHOGGI I drink to the general joy of the whole table
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, I pray, in the midst of sadness and confusion, help me to faithfully see your promises of peac...
MELGA AGUILLON There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-impo...
ANDRé GIDE I relive that year often in my mind, bringing it back to life, and I realize that when I do, I alway...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Sorrow is the child of too much joy
CHINESE PROVERBS Sadness and gladness succeed each other
PROVERB She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself.
MIRIAM TOEWS People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all.
MILAN KUNDERA Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too b...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gift...
ANN VOSKAMP We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
JIM ROHN The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
JIM ROHN I prayed in silence that perhaps even now, the queen might have a son and might know joy like this, ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,
the more joy you can contain.
Is not the c...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there ...
JEROME K. JEROME I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, ther...
JEROME K. JEROME If you don't do it, you'll never know what would have happened if you had done it
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthw...
AUDREY HEPBURN This diversity of misery and joy is no more than excited neurons in the skull.
YAMIN RASHEED The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anyt...
REESE WITHERSPOON I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good en...
ZORA NEALE HURSTON I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, th...
DANIELLE TRUSSONI It is finally complete. Four years ago in Sydney, I cried with sadness. Today I cry tears of joy. I'...
HICHAM EL GUERROUJ So young, and yet I have had all of life.Why, men have lived to see a hundred years,Who have not kno...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem ...
BIBLE If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem a...
BIBLE ...I realized that rewards are not the goal- if one seeks the ultimate it will elude you. The reward...
VALERIE ANN WORWOOD I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, ser...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm...
JANET JACKSON She's known sadness. That's what it is. I only just thought that as I wrote it. She's known sadness,...
NATHAN FILER I am wired to live joy in all ways. I let my being be healed and tended by the high vibration of joy...
AMY LEIGH MERCREE You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a ...
JOHN GREEN I jump for joy every day. My body pulses with joy, and my vibration soars. I feel amazing.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE Joy came always after pain.
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE I really try to enjoy life and have joy with what I do.
TIM TEBOW For my whole career, I've been a singer-slash-songwriter, even though I'm very thankfully kn...
JENNIFER NETTLES I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enou...
MARK HELPRIN Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates peo...
DAVE MATTHEWS I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and beh...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy...
J.D. SALINGER Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria...
MARY BERRY A true friend sees your tears of sadness,
And quickly turns them into tears of joy and laughte...
R. BENZADI I slept and I dreamed that life was all joy. I woke and saw that life was but service. I served and ...
R. TAGORE I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The past four years have been filled with joy, sadness and hard work. Sometime we wanted to quit and...
BILL WALKER If you think back and replay your year, if it doesn't bring you tears either of joy or sadness, cons...
ALLY MCBEAL Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.
POPE FRANCIS Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy...
PAULO COELHO I have not that joy in the Holy Ghost, no settled, lasting joy; nor have I such a peace as excludes ...
JOHN WESLEY I still have joy in the midst of struggles.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA 'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventu...
EMILY DICKINSON I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy...
WILLIAM BLAKE I highly recommend that we take joy in other people's joy.
ANIL GUPTA I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I a...
MARIANNE MOORE The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am ...
MARIANNE MOORE A wise teacher makes learning a joy; a rebellious teacher spouts foolishness
BIBLE My most joy that I have is dancing.
CAMILA ALVES I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.
JONI MITCHELL A gentle word, like summer rain, may soothe some heart and banish pain. What joy or sadness often sp...
UNKNOWN Real love is a growing and development process that involves every emotion, problem, joy and triumph...
ZIG ZIGLAR I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy
SARA TEASDALE Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Acco...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Write for joy. It is the *only* reason to write. Whatever happens to your books afterward, just writ...
WELWYN WILTON KATZ I love the people, I love wearing clothes, it's great fun. And I love putting on makeup. It's always...
JODI KIDD People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard a...
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard a...
AUGUST STRINDBERG Of all the dreams of love that ever I have dreamed, no matter how fantastic, no matter how unbelieva...
TONNY K. BROWN I have a heart with room for every joy.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Today, I will know the unadulterated joy of giving with no strings. I acknowledge that sometimes I h...
JAN DENISE So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies...
FEIST There are moments when i wish i could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but i have ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as li...
JOHN SUTHERLAND BONNELL But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already n...
NIKOLAI GOGOL Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
ZHUANGZI I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
CHUANG TZU Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be gracefu...
C. JOYBELL C. Anyway, he and I worked on the script together, and I must say he was a joy to work with. Very enthu...
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ASHLEIGH COLE I was worried we might go 12 innings. I knew eventually I'd start to tire.
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