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If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well.


Joyce Grenfell

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JAMES JOYCE If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should se...
JOYCE BROTHERS Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted per...
JOYCE BROTHERS ...your mom calls you up every other day to beg you to get a real job so she can hold her head up a...
JOYCE PARK The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork...
JAMES JOYCE I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday o...
JAMES JOYCE A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having ...
BRENDA JOYCE Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.
JOYCE MEYER A good home must be made, not bought.
JOYCE MAYNARD When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done... is doing... and eve...
JOYCE MEYER No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no...
JOYCE MEYER Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sens...
JOYCE APPLEBY In my relationship with God, I've learned that if I follow a 'formula' for how I spend m...
JOYCE MEYER Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
JOYCE MEYER A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
JOYCE BROTHERS Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted ...
JOYCE BROTHERS At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyon...
JOYCE MEYER I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of...
JAMES JOYCE Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of ge...
JOYCE MEYER Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no...
JOYCE MEYER I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to ...
JOYCE MEYER I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning...
JOYCE MEYER Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parentin...
JOYCE MEYER Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, mi...
JOYCE MEYER The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
JAMES JOYCE Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgme...
JOYCE MEYER My husband and I always have fun together in everything we do. Some people call me crazy, but the re...
JOYCE GIRAUD Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
JAMES JOYCE Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
JAMES JOYCE I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries argu...
JAMES JOYCE A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
JAMES JOYCE Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
JAMES JOYCE God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.
JAMES JOYCE My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
JAMES JOYCE Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. ...
JAMES JOYCE I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
JAMES JOYCE He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
JAMES JOYCE There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
JAMES JOYCE Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
JAMES JOYCE No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
JAMES JOYCE