"The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer."
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"I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in the same place."
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"For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache."
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"The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned - is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar - is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment - is this not the mark of the gentleman?""
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"The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety."
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"What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other."
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"Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living."
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"You cannot instill joy. You can only find where it lives and bring it forth."
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"The more we know Him, the more we will desire to know Him. As love increases with knowledge, the more we know God, the more we will truly love Him. We will learn to love Him equally in times of distress or in times of great joy."
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"We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will,whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations."
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"When you numb your pain you also numb your joy."
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"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor."
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"Resistance is the secret of joy!"
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"One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child."
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"But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!"
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"Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . . . then wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort."
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"If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music."
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"If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy."
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"...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men."
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"As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad."
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