David Hume Quote: 'A propensity to hope and joy ...' @FEELquotes

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Tags: Than Less Words

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

Dan Colen

Tags: Out Much Joy

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Eudora Welty

Tags: You Your Go

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

George William Russell

Tags: Me Than Better

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

Rumi

Tags: Always Than Love

We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer.

Noreena Hertz

Tags: World Some Even

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

J. K. Rowling

Tags: Fear Out Your

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Khalil Gibran

Tags: Truth You Your

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

C. S. Lewis

Tags: Me Real Almost

Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.

Terry Wogan

Tags: You Like Because

I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.

Robert Redford

Tags: Dad Fear Very

A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.

David Whyte

Tags: Fear Very Little

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.

Thorstein Veblen

Tags: Our Play Himself

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

Robert Smith

Tags: Fear Because More

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

Luc de Clapiers

Tags: Men Hope Fear

I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.

Kristin Armstrong

Tags: Power Faith Thankful

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

Nicolas Roeg

Tags: Hope Fear Our

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce

Tags: Hope Nature Fear

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Adam Smith

Tags: People Part Rich

Should that worse scenario materialize, then most probably our propensity to increase interest rates will be weaker.

Marek Belka

Tags: Our Will Most

David Hume Quote: 'A propensity to hope and joy ...'

Feel Quotes