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"I prefer to learn everything through music. If you want divinity, the music in every human being and their love for music is pretty much it. It's the big indication of their spirituality and their ability to love and make love, or feel pain or joy, and really manifest it, really be real."
"My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss."
"The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit."
"Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience."
"It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do."
"strength is overcome by weakness/Joy is overcome by Pain/The night is overcome by Brightness/and Love-it remains the same."
"Don't let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating."
"I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours later in the beatific vision of God"
"Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more."
"Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy."
"Jesus said...i'm the only way to permanent peace, im the only way to permanent joy, im the only way to eternal life, im the only way to forgiveness of sin, im the only way to the Father."
"I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music."
"Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph."
"There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours."
"The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment."
"I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness."
"The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression."
"We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow."
"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle."
"I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin."
