"Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'."
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"Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy."
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"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams."
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"For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love."
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"All real works of art look as though they were done in joy."
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"Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer."
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"If you're saddened by another's sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at another's joy then joy will never leave you."
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"We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series."
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"I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them."
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"All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls."
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"The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque."
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"Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering."
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"The unseen presence keeps saying to us, ‘You are Joy!’"
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"We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other."
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"To have a human form is a joyful thing."
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"Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy."
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"Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives."
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"What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons."
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"I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over."
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"To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have."
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