"when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you."
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"Let is walk ... joyously, dear souls, among the difficulties of this passing life ... These pains will have an end when our life ends, after which there will be only joy, only contentment, only eternal consolation."
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"Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent."
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"Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent."
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"If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys."
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"Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows."
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"[I]t is His good pleasure that we remain always in the holy joy of His love."
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"This is the crucifixion of Christ: in which He dies again and again in the individuals who were made to share the joy and freedom of His grace, and who deny Him."
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"To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience, as joy, as being."
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"What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms."
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"The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission."
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"Organize your reality according to your strength; organize your reality according to your playfulness; according to your dreams; according to your joy; according to your hopes - and then you can help those who organize their reality according to their fears."
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"The hurt you embrace becomes joy."
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"To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy."
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"When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others."
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"Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy"
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"Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses."
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"The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits."
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"Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together."
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"My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses."
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