"Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy."
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"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."
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"The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace."
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"Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy."
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"And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role."
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"PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure."
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"For lawless joys a bitter ending waits."
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"We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be."
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"Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches."
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"God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy."
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"Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms."
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"We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens."
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"The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give."
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"Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy."
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"The purpose of your life is Joy."
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"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"
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"Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?"
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"It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours."
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"...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness."
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"Solving problems should be a joy, a welcome challenge to our creativity."
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