"the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy."
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"With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things."
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"Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen."
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"I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys."
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"We’re only here briefly. And while I’m here I want to allow myself joy."
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"In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again."
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"True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others."
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"I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else's life lighter, brighter, or better."
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"The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart."
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"Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth."
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"For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy."
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"Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord."
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"The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being."
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"In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom."
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"Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy."
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"While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories."
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"Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude."
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"Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy."
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"Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good."
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"If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife."
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