"Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy."
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"Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern."
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"Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven."
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"The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it."
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"Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy."
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"Let anyone who comes to you go away feeling better and happier. Everyone should see goodness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile. Joy shows from the eyes. It appears when we speak and walk. It cannot be kept closed inside us. It reacts outside. Joy is very infectious."
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"In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not."
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"He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God."
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"There is only one sin - lack of love. Be brave, be capable of loving, even if love seems a terrible and treacherous thing. Find joy in love. Find joy in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart."
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"How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present."
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"Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them."
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"Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy."
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"Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry "Amen" to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!"
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"Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now."
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"The greatest gift that you could ever give to another is your own happiness, for when you are in a state of joy, happiness, or appreciation, you are fully connected to the stream of pure, positive Source Energy that is truly who you are. And when you are in that state of connection, anything or anyone that you are holding as your object of attention benefits from your attention."
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"Comparison is the thief of all joy."
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"If you say, "I'm bursting with joy," a scientist could analyze your skin and find it loaded with neuropeptides that may have antidepressant effects and that may modulate the immune system. If you say, "I feel exhilarated, unbounded, and joyful," and I were to examine your blood, I would find high levels of interleukin and interferon, which are powerful anticancer drugs."
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"Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable."
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"It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches."
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"Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of."
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