"You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy."
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"You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected."
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"Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy - you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body."
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"Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows."
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"The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure. . . . In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history. . . ."
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"Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy."
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"Laughter is eternity if joy is real."
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"The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers. These four questions will join any program you've got and enhance it. Any religion you have - they'll enhance it. If you have no religion, they will bring you joy. And they'll burn up anything that isn't true for you. They'll burn through to the reality that has always been waiting."
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"Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow."
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"Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do."
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"Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up."
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"These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back."
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"Happiness is activity."
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"If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence."
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"And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I."
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"I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary."
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"Here's what I'm going to have to say to all of you. If some of you have demons in your head who talk to you in profanity or whatever, don't let your demon shoot down your rock music, don't let your demon keep you off the joy bus. So like I say, Rock music pays off."
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"The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'."
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"Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?"
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"Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy."
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