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"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
"Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities."
"Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys."
"Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything."
"If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home."
"The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings."
"Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face."
"We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it."
"I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways."
"The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy."
"The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful."
"Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy."
"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."
"Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity."
"Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning."
"It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth."
"Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally."
"You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there."
