"The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know."
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"I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke."
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"And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly."
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"JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide."
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"The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy."
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"Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery."
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"You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy."
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"When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding."
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"And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky."
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"Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy."
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"Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor."
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"I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward."
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"If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine."
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"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy."
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"You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character."
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"...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy."
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"Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved."
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"Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself."
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"Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember."
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"You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."
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