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Today's Anniversary - 24th May

Births

• 1914 - Lilli Palmer
• 1944 - Patti LaBelle
• 1972 - Danny Bautista
• 1965 - John Christopher Reilly Jr.
• 1958 - Wayne Williams

Deaths

• 1895 - John Hawley
• 1901 - Charlotte Mary Yonge
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• A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

  Sally Kirkland

  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Young

• If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

  Ed Sullivan

  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Yourself

• Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it’s worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.

  Ruth Pitter

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  To read of a detective’s daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

  Rex Stout

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  Tags in Read, Daring
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  Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

  Henri Nouwen

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  Tags in Choice, Choosing

• One of the joys about acting is researching.

  William Sanderson

  Topics in Joy

• Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.

  Rollo May

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  Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

  Eileen Caddy

  Topics in Joy, Life, Work

  Tags in Fun, Play, Forget

• I only really watch sport. That’s where you see real joy. I don’t like watching much else on TV, because it’s generally either twisted or sad.

  Roger Milla

  Topics in Joy, Sad

• This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Topics in Joy, Work

  Tags in Heart

• The only history is a mere question of one’s struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

  D. H. Lawrence

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  Tags in Struggle, Need

• There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

  William Cullen Bryant

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  Tags in Glory

• Tell me not of joy: there’s none Now my little sparrow’s gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!

  William Cartwright

  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Little, Little Things

• The only joy in the world is to begin.

  Cesare Pavese

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  Tags in Begin, World

• Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

  William Butler Yeats

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• Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

  William Butler Yeats

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• Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

  Cathy Rigby

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  Tags in Flying, Such

• How good is man’s life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Heart, Living

• Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Topics in Joy, Life

  Tags in Eating

• The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

  Rita Dove

  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Find, Working