"Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away."
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"Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails."
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"... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it only through theprison bars of illness and suffering! Plus je vois, the more I am thrilled by the spectacle."
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"Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause."
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"There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing."
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"I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy."
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"Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us."
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"If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle."
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"Anger is remembered pain, fear is anticipated pain, guilt is self directed pain, depression is depletion of energy. Cure-return to love& joy"
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"Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering."
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"Every cell in your body is seeking fulfillment through joy, beauty, love and appreciation."
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"It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs."
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"Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself."
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"I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that."
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"I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me."
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"There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel that joy."
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"Wonder and despair are two sides of a spinning coin. When you open yourself to one, you open yourself to the other. You discover a capacity for joy that wasn't in you before. Wonder is the promise of restoration: as deeply as you dive, so may you rise."
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"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."
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"I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches and in the marsh grasses on the Cape carried me back to my family visits in Harwich. The dogs are so full of life, it just made me smile."
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"As this New Year begins, ask God to help you tune your life every day to His Word, so you can bring harmony and joy to those around you."
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