"Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life."
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"Let joy be unconfined."
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"When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness."
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"All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings."
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"Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is"
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"May we understand that joy is not a sin, sacrifice is not a virtue."
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"The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of these experiences in the vast terrain of our existence. It is part of what makes life grand-and it is also why our minds take us on such a crazy ride. If we can train ourselves through meditation to be more open and more accepting toward the wild arc of our experience, if we can lean into the difficulties of life and the ride of our minds, we can become more settled and relaxed amid whatever life brings us."
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"As always, a million heartfelt thanks for bringing such joy into this chick's life."
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"There is so much wonder and joy in science, about understanding how the world works and why the world is the way it is. It's not just for academics. It is a thing that's available to everyone."
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"Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life."
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"The only joy in this hard life is serving others."
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"As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced."
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"When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy."
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"Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey."
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"My path is about Joy."
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"In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie."
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"Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears."
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"No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life."
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"I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy and happiness. But above all of this, I wish you love."
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"A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate."
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