"I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment."
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"The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit."
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"Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty"
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"Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit, but I am indeed touched by the joys. This book is an ode to such joys, a digest of my collections from various sources."
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"you will I trust find heaviness may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning."
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"Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali."
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"When we recognize how precious and truly glorious we are, then we become humbled by that and recognize everyone's true spiritual identity. And then our greatest joy is in sharing."
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"Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom."
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"My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation."
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"We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys."
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"A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years."
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"Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being."
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"The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence."
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"Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary."
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"Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it."
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"The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties."
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"I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual."
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"O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes to me in darkness and that works things I cannot see. Teach me to be happy that I can depend on You. To depend on You should be enough for an eternity of joy. To depend on You by itself ought to be infinitely greater than any joy which my own intellectual appetite could desire."
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"Kids; 10 seconds of joy, 30 years of misery"
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"Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion, an occasion of chemical joy."
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