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Joy Quotes - Page 119

Such joy ambition finds.

Such joy ambition finds.

1665 Satan. Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.4, l.91-2.

It's not that we're trying to avoid death; we're trying to enjoy our lives fully, to wring every wonderful drop out of life that we possibly can.

Joe De Sena (2014). “Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

"Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists". Book by James Geary (p. 271), 2007.

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.334, Oxford University Press on Demand

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.118