"The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows."
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"Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary."
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"Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy."
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"There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy."
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"Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown."
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"Whenever a human being ceases to live for themselves and begins to care about that which is greater than themselves, the personality begins to experience ecstasy, joy and spontaneous liberation. And that's found through doing, through action, through giving, through deeply embracing the human experience."
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"it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure."
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"I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily."
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"And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')"
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"There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by."
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"Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible."
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"Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918."
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"Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us."
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"Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted."
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"Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?"
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"These people are like ... a frog living in a well, who has never seen the outside world. He knows only his well, so he will not believe that there is such a thing as the world. Likewise, people talk so much about the world because they have not known the joy of God."
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"When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness."
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"What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?"
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"Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life."
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"It sounds so stupid, so basic, but when you are really in a grateful state, you are like a magnet for joy."
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