Joy and Sadness

"You can either have an hour of hope or an hour of despair."

Robert Jordan

Joy and Sadness

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 7.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm."

John Heyl Vincent

Joy and Sadness

Pain and Tears

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

Albert Camus

Joy and Sadness

Power and Weakness

Rating: 9.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book."

Irish Proverbs

Health and Alcohol

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A merry heart makes a long life."

English Proverbs

Joy and Sadness

Wit and Humor

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Everyone smiles in the same language."

English Proverbs

Joy and Sadness

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it."

Andy Rooney

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 7.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile."

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Joy and Sadness

Pain and Tears

Rating: 7.86 (Number of Voters: 7)

"When you are happy, you enjoy the music. But, when you're sad, you understand the lyrics."

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Art and Culture

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Laughter is inner jogging."

Norman Cousins

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle

Joy and Sadness

Work and Laziness

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home."

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Joy and Sadness

Various

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Smile! It is easier than explaining why you are sad."

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Joy and Sadness

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Our pleasures are imagined, but our griefs are all real."

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Anger

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"With all this darkness round me I feel less alone."

Samuel Beckett "Krapp`s Last Tape"

Family and Loneliness

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 9.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A laugh is a smile with a soundtrack."

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Joy and Sadness

Optimism and Hope

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A conscience does not prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying it."

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Joy and Sadness

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Laughter is an instant vacation."

Milton Berle

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it."

Ellen Glasgow "The Woman Within"

Joy and Sadness

Peace and War

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Joy and Sadness

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."

Anthony Burgess

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort; it's not the sort of comfort they supply there."

Clive Staples Lewis "Letters of C. S. Lewis"

Happiness

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 3.17 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will deserve to receive greater."

Thomas a Kempis "The Imitation Of Christ"

Happiness

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not."

Clarence Irving Lewis "That Hideous Strength"

Friendship and Hostility

Joy and Sadness

Pain and Tears

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself."

Mahatma Gandhi

Joy and Sadness

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.17 (Number of Voters: 6)

"I get little enjoyment out of women, more out of alcohol, most out of ideas."

Henry Louis Mencken "Prejudices"

Health and Alcohol

Joy and Sadness

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield

Joy and Sadness

Wit and Humor

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

Helen Keller

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."

Socrates

Joy and Sadness

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness."

Pierre Corneille "The Cid"

Joy and Sadness

Success and Fame

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy."

Henry David Thoreau

Courage and Fear

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality."

John Burroughs

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

Mark Twain "Following the Equator"

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."

Joseph Addison "Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories..."

Friendship and Hostility

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow."

Honoré De Balzac

Joy and Sadness

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice"

Joy and Sadness

Life and Death

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!"

Gilda Radner

Joy and Sadness

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed."

Chamfort

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"In summer, the song sings itself."

William Carlos Williams

Joy and Sadness

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."

Henry Van Dyke

Joy and Sadness

Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"For every joy there is a price to be paid."

Egyptian Proverbs (from ancient temple)

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."

Helen Keller

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys."

Jewish Proverbs

Joy and Sadness

Trust

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Sorrow is the child of too much joy."

Chinese Proverbs

Joy and Sadness

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."

Swedish Proverbs

Joy and Sadness

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The woman cries before the wedding and the man after."

Polish Proverbs

Joy and Sadness

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 7)

"A good laugh is sunshine in the house."

William Makepeace Thackeray

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

Arthur Koestler

Dreams and Desires

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)