"I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love."
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"I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance."
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"Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy."
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"Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides."
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"Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic."
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"I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled."
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"There is joy in all: in the hair I brush each morning, in the Cannon towel, newly washed, that I rub my body with each morning."
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"Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries."
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"For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners."
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"Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values, and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions."
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"Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy."
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"Only joy comes from song."
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"All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world."
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"For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation."
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"O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!"
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"Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious."
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"Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy!"
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"O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time."
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"Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself."
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"Joy & Satisfaction Show Up More Frequently & on Time when you have Passion"
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