"Our problems are not solved by physical force, by hatred, by warOur problems are solved by loving kindness by gentleness, by joy"
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"May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy."
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"To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy."
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"True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love."
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"Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things."
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"Singing still brings me tremendous joy, the reception you get and you never know what people are going to share with you after the event."
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"The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die."
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"There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer."
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"The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm."
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"Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste joy, and if we are suspicious of ecstasy, agony can never reach us either. Joy and sorrow are the parents of our spiritual growth."
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"Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy."
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"Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either."
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"Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'"
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"Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how."
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"If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all."
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"The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life... three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys."
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"Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms."
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"Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation."
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"He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy."
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"I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the last gift of the living to the dead; I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow."
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