"Life is a gift, not to possess, but to share."
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"Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses"
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"I bet most of us have experienced at some point the joys of less: college - in your dorm, traveling - in a hotel room, camping - rig up basically nothing, maybe a boat. Whatever it was for you, I bet that, among other things, this gave you a little more freedom, a little more time."
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"What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind."
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"You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!"
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"As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out."
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"The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed."
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"Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy."
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"Pain is short, and joy is eternal."
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"What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less."
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"Let your joy be unconfined!"
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"Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment."
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"Pause and remember - If you empty yourself of yesterday's sorrows, you will have much more room for today's joy."
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"Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it."
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"Without joy in your life you are powerless."
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"It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be."
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"Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu"
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"There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know."
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"I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years."
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"Joy is not made to be a crumb. (Don't Hesitate)"
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