"Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like."
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"That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him."
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"Mindfully practicing authenticity during our most soul-searching struggles is how we invite grace, joy and gratitude into our lives."
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"If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen."
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"If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy."
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"I get the most joy in life out of music."
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"[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better."
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"In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude."
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"Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives."
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"We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy."
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"From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair."
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"I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount."
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"Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003"
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"Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it."
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"Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it."
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"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
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"Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!"
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"The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy."
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"How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?"
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"Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box."
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