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It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meanin...

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The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy th...

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Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process t...

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Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it's your responsibility to ...

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Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accep...

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Clarence DarrowThe Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowe...

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Our minds are so cluttered with endless to-do lists that there's no room for us to experience the jo...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

The idea of Zen is to catch life as it flows. There is nothing extraordinary or mysterious about Zen...

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D. T. SuzukiAn Introduction to Zen Buddhism

I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the ...

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This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy. And now that I've found it, how ca...

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Daniel KeyesFlowers for Algernon

Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates peo...

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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

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David HumeEssays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul

The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance...

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Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glo...

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We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from ...

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If you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely fo...

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Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.

There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when...

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People don’t realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your hear...

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Deepak ChopraThe Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

A simple test to ascertain how much you enjoy and derive meaning from your work is to ask yourself w...

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Dennis PragerHappiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual

We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibi...

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Desmond TutuThe Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

I'm actually very humbled listening to His Holiness,' the Archbishop said, 'because I've frequently ...

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Desmond TutuThe Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

Discovering more joy does not, save us from th inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we...

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Desmond TutuThe Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

Symptoms of chronic stress are feelings of fragmentation and of chasing after time - of not being ab...

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Desmond TutuThe Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in ti...

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Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that ...

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The little white bundle—toddling dutifully down the hall to the front door—froze. Then a high-pitche...

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But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us,...

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I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and...

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He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers for the que...

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Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselv...

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To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the...

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Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stilln...

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For awhile, I was left with nothing on the physical plane. I had no relationships, no job, no home, ...

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Eckhart TolleThe Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

I suppose one of the challenges of writing the word-side of music these days is trying to decipher a...

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And thus when by Poetry, or when by Music, the most entrancing of the poetic moods, we find ourselve...

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Edgar Allan PoeThe Poetic Principle

The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the be...

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My mind to me a kingdom is,Such present joys therein I find,That it excels all other blissThat world...

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Life seeks life and loves life. The opening of a catkin of a willow, in the flight of the butterfly,...

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Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood.

Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden...

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Meditation is the basis of a life of splendid health, untiring energy, unfailing love, and abiding w...

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Eknath EaswaranTake Your Time: How to Find Patience

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy o...

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Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h...

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Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of co...

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I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that o...

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When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a reali...

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The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We crea...

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This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe r...

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We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think peop...

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But Jesus, our Advocate, presents an effectual plea in behalf of all who by repentance and faith hav...

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At the very crisis, when Satan seemed about to triumph, the Son of God came with the embassage of di...

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The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites save...

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Ellen G. WhitePatriarchs And Prophets

It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God...

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The warnings given to the Hebrews against assimilating with the heathen were not more direct or expl...

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I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that nei...

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Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.

I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and fre...

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We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're suppo...

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The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those...

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Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front

Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that ...

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All human joys are swift of wing For heaven doth so allot it That when you get an easy thing You ...

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Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exu...

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If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their b...

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Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless nig...

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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts not amid joy.

Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

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Fernando PessoaPoems of Fernando Pessoa

Let all thy joys be as the month of May.

Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy.

The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditi...

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Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor an...

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Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see...

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Fred RogersThe World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else'...

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We are above all things loved--that is the good news of the gospel--and loved not just the way we tu...

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Frederick BuechnerSecrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons

There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind the...

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There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind...

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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

O friends, no more these sounds!Let us sing more cheerful songs, more full of joy!

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in...

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Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.

Live in joy, in love,even among those who hate.Live in joy, in health,even among the afflicted.Live ...

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You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumpi...

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To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet ar...

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Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to ...

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The clouds were gathering over Mary, too--deep and dark, but of altogether another kind from those t...

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As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleas...

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But Mary had not come into the world to be sad or to help another to be sad. Sorrowful we may often ...

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...[T]wo of you can be no match for the three giants, I will find you, if I can, a third brother, wh...

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She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly ...

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There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much th...

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