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"It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window."
"You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness."
"Without pain, we couldn't know joy."
"The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness."
"Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m"
"Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy."
"And her joy was nearly like sorrow."
"Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards"
"I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love."
"I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy."
"We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain."
"Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them."
"The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain."
"This Day, whate'er the Fates decree; Shall still be kept with Joy by me: This Day then, let us not be told, That you are sick, and I grown old"
"When you give, give with joy and smiling."
"Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them."
"One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty."
"When you are a thankful person it releases joy."
"A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'"
"It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy."
