"If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed."
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"The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy."
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"You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences."
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"Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world."
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"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked."
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"This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian."
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"Achieving conventional goals, such as profits and joy, with unconventional methods, such as investing energy instead of money."
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"The beating heart of the universe is holy joy."
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"To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life."
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"If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need."
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"Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance."
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"You don't have to wait for something 'meaningful' to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The 'waiting to start living' syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state."
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"If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day."
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"Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end."
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"There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent."
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"Showing joy by jumping up and down and clapping goes away at some point between pre-school and being old enough to go to orgies."
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"We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness."
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"Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being."
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"No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy."
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"It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day."
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