"worms are the words but joy's the voice"
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"Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?"
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"Appreciate how rare and full of potential your situation is in this world, then take joy in it, and use it to your best advantage."
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"Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead."
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"Within the framework of the Buddhist Path, reflecting on suffering has tremendous importance because -realizing the nature of suffering, you will develop greater resolve to put an end to the causes of suffering and the unwholesome deeds which lead to suffering. And it will increase your enthusiasm for engaging in the wholesome actions and deeds which lead to happiness and joy."
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"It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inextricably linked, we are compelled to accept ethics as the indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours."
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"Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously."
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"but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy"
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"Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life."
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"The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis"
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"Every joy is beyond all others."
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"When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy."
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"If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment."
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"You are the love and joy beneath the pain."
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"Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being."
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"I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow."
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"Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent others from becoming paralysed by depression, loneliness and difficulties."
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"Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life."
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"The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act. - Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life."
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"We can't choose our lives, but we can DECIDE what to do with the joys or griefs we're given."
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