"Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy."
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"All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness."
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"Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant."
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"I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough."
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"Events bring you small joy, while # existence brings you bliss."
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"You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?"
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"Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books."
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"When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy."
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"My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy."
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"Do not allow negative experiences to make you bitter. They should make you wiser, and with that wisdom you shall find joy."
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"Joy is very infectious; therefore, be always full of joy!"
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"The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting."
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"The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul."
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"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face."
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"Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys."
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"The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it."
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"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."
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"Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours."
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"All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being."
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"When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace. You could call it joy because that's what joy is: vibrantly alive peace. It is the joy of knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form. That is the joy of Being - of being who you truly are."
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