"Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?"
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"The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available."
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"The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity."
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"We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life."
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"Everyone, some sooner than others, must endure his or her own personal 'hell on earth.' It is important to keep searching for the small joys, although they are often the most elusive. Trust that these joys will appear, sometimes unexpectedly, and often in life's darkest moments."
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"So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the joy of expelling, discarding, cleansing itself of a recurrent impurity."
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"Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy."
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"Stay here til I come to fetch you." I no longer recognize you in the Republic of Joy," I loftily informed him. "Our diplomatic ties are severed." Unsever them," he growled, "or the Country of Raphael will be forced to declare your republic a protectorate." Dictator," I muttered. For life," he agreed."
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"Roxy, stop being so obnoxious!" -Joy "I'm never obnoxious; I'm just concerned." -Roxy"
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"No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others."
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"We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation."
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"The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires."
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"We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so."
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"The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune."
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"Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy."
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"I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s."
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"Concerts are dangerous because anything can happen - which is one of the joys as well."
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"There is no time like the pleasant."
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"Joy is the best of wine."
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"Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead."
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