"I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling."
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"And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything."
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"Stretch out your hand and receive the world's wide gift of joy, appreciation and beauty."
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"If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh."
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"Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel of work for work's sake never produced any work worth doing."
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"There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere."
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"In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man."
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"For me, the experience of making the show is very much like being in a novel. I enjoy getting the new script. I make a cup of tea and I read it the same way I would read a book, with the same amount of joy."
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"To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction."
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"This intelligence must endure . . . . The glory and intelligence that God has prepared for the faithful, no man knoweth. Should not this fill every heart with peace and joy - that there is no end to the progress of knowledge?"
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"Joy is a natural way of being."
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"Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job."
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"The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead."
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"Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion."
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"I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another."
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"Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort."
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"...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow."
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"Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose."
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"All recurring joy is pain refined."
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"Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones."
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