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"My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay."
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
"No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?"
"Well, you know, the mind is nothing. The mind is only a bunch of thoughts. Thoughts about the past and the future, that is all a mind is. But, the Heart is a center of stillness, of quietness, of Absolute Peace. When you rest your mind in your heart, you feel a joy and a bliss that overwhelms you, and you will Know. Surrender your mind to your Heart, and you will feel it."
"When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day."
"Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance your own pure heart. Keep quiet."
"You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not."
"The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner."
"The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken."
"Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes."
"But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy."
"Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy."
"Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know."
"Surely there can be no greater joy than that of saving souls."
"We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope."
"When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth."
"After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here."
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
"Comparison is the death of joy."
"No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened."
