"...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended."
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"When you watch your mum and dad sing and they're happy and it brings them joy, it is then a natural choice to go where the joy is. Music was always that place in our family."
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"Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life."
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"Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest."
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"I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone."
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"The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing."
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"When we hear that Christ was made a curse for us, let us believe it with joy and assurance. By faith Christ changes places with us. He gets our sins, we get His holiness."
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"A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close, the desire to experience that again was hard to deny."
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"My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world."
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"One of the springs of poetry is joy."
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"Fighting dragons is my holy joy."
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"So let the world go, but hold fast to joy."
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"People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!"
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"You can't really gauge the difficulties of television. There's difficulties and joys that happen with an amazing, great team, when one is working. Television can be a very frustrating job for almost anybody working in television, because you're shooting episodically, and you don't know one scene from the next, and maybe they change around."
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"My mother was someone that walked into a room and lit it up. She made friends easily and she communicated her enthusiasms with great joy. I always wanted to be more like my mother than I am. I loved and admired her very deeply."
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"It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance."
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"We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow."
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"I felt, as a lawyer, when I was mentoring and working with kids, that I gained a level of groundedness that I just couldn't get sitting on the forty-seventh floor of a fancy firm. Selfishly, it gives me joy - it makes me feel like my life has a purpose."
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"My greatest joy is just to be alive!"
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"Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science."
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