"You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy."
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"Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity."
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"To have joy, one must share it."
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"It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come."
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"Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go."
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"Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus."
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"The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find."
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"Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?"
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"Trust your Heart. Value its intuition. Choose to let go of fear, and to open to the true and you will awaken to the freedom, clarity and joy of Being"
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"Joy is the serious business of heaven."
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"Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind."
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"My origami creations, in accordance with the laws of nature, require the use of geometry, science, and physics. They also encompass religion, philosophy, and biochemistry. Overall, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own handthe possibility of creation from paper is infinite."
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"Every cell in our body has the capacity to hold infinity. Let us tap the full potential that nature has bestowed on us, the potential to hold infinity in every cell of the body. For that, we must practice meditation regularly. Then our physiology undergoes a change and every cell in the body is filled with prana - life force. As the level of prana in the body rises, we bubble with joy."
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"Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy first derived from it will still be there."
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"Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings."
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"Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment."
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"I encourage you from the depths of my heart and being to know that you have the full capacity and the right to make changes that will enliven your awareness, raise the succulent joy in your heart, and experience the vitality that comes from living in balance."
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"In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time."
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"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm."
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"Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore."
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