Unabashed Joy Quotes

#1. How does it save the world to reject unabashed joy when it is joy that saves us? Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering. The converse does. (Page 58)

Ann Voskamp

#2. I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.

Anne Lamott

#3. The universe is transformation.

Louise Erdrich

#4. I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.

Yann Martel

#5. I am happy
Because, I
Found someone
To Blame
For mistakes
Thank God &
You mate,
You ended
My suffocation.

Amen

Rajesh Nanoo

#6. There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.

Autre Ne Veut

#7. The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.

Paul Weller

#8. I wanted to go to college and play football.

Barry Larkin

#9. Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

George Eliot

#10. Already churning. If I come, will you make Dad put

Sidney Sheldon

#11. It was important, I know, for my father as a product of his times not to be vulnerable, so he chose, and I can't say that I blame him, to live his life rather than create it.

Marita Golden

#12. So unabashed as to make its recipient afraid - not of the girl but of a world that didn't abide such forthright joy.

Sarah McCoy

#13. But 8 years ago, he found himself unexpectedly falling in love when he was in his 77th year, with Bill Hayes, a younger American writer. He opened himself up to love and he now has someone to share his life with. His life is a lesson that it is never too late to fall in love.

Oliver Jack

#14. She hadn't had such an adrenaline rush since she traveled around Europe with Conner. She just wished he were with her to keep her company.

Chris Colfer

#15. In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.

Alfred P. Sloan

#16. How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?

Janet Fitch