"...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24)"
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"We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them was impossible. Let's take the next impossible, do it with joy and get it finished with and create a world free from poverty. Let us create the world of our choice."
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"The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain."
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"A bird is joy incarnate."
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"Many people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor."
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"Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy is prayer-Joy is strength-Joy is love-Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
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"Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers. O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify Christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you."
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"Brothers, Fathers and Sisters - all of us in the Missionaries of Charity are doing the same. All of us have been created by God to love and to be loved. We are involved in this work. When you do that, there is joy, unity and love."
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"We live in a world where joy is possible, love is possible, happiness is possible; where all things are possible, if we're willing to take the time, take a chance, take a breath and step off the edge of everything that is for the sake of everything that might be."
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"All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow."
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"If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today."
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"There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away."
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"And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being."
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"Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings."
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"All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter."
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"Rejoice in the abundance of being able to awaken each morning and experience a new day. Be glad to be alive, to be healthy, to have friends, to be creative, to be a living example of the joy of living. Live to your highest awareness. Enjoy your transformationa l process."
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"See your later years as becoming your treasure years. Sit quietly and think of all the times you were joyful, and let your body feel this joy."
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"Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being."
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"Share your joy with everyone in your world."
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"I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty."
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