"One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride."
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"If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success."
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"It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living."
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"The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy."
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"The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy."
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"Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue."
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"Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment."
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"Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy."
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"There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background; from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom."
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"When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium... those moments are what I live for."
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"Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy."
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"An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened.""
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"The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are."
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"We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile."
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"The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day."
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"May books and nature be their early joy!"
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"A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy."
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"Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters."
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"Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy."
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"Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy."
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