"Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]"
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"And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once."
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"Joy to the world, the Lord is come / Let earth receive her King / Let every heart, prepare him room / And heaven and nature sing."
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"Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy."
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"The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering"
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"Joy and openness come from our own contented heart."
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"Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy."
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"Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy."
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"Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our childhood. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."
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"When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it."
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"Nothing brings me more joy than seeing other people's dreams come true."
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"Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys."
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"The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring."
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"Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me."
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"Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we've found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound."
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"My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes."
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"The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage--who can tell?--but truth--truth stripped of its cloak of time."
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"Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it."
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"With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?"
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"Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs."
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