"And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore."
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"Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness."
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"To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval."
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"Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do."
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"Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul; it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquillity."
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"What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?"
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"If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love."
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"The Divine rejoices in your being happy. God, or the Creation, is so happy when you are happy. When you dance, sing, and jump up and down happily, that is true prayer, that is true meditation. Meditation is a fountain of joy, an ecstasy; and Divine enjoys that more. Divine is not fond of your suffering."
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"The world is for newness, not for oldness. New, new things we have to create. Then only the world will progress. If not, we will come to feel that there is nothing new under the sun. We have to create new things to keep our joy. If there is no newness, how can we have enthusiasm? And if there is no enthusiasm, do we make any progress?"
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"If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy."
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"Joy lives concealed in grief."
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"I'm far, far, far from that. But of course, that's one of the joys of acting is that you can move up in the world, even if - you know, in the characters that you're playing, even if you don't."
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"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served."
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"When we imagine the power of all our sisters standing together on the shoulders of a quality education - our joy knows no bounds."
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"Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom."
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"May all beings learn how to nourish themselves with joy each day."
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"Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free."
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"The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go."
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"Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about."
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"Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves."
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