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"I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy."
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"Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief that austere at one end, in the deprivation it endorses, and fantastical in the other, since it awaits a universal utopia. Joy sneaks in anyway, abundance cascades forth uninvited...Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection."
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"Wherever you go, be the thunder of joy and the wind of optimism."
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"For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy."
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"Gladness comes from God."
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"Chasing the external to achieve joy is a death-trap for personal-development."
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"You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?""Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily."Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!"I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer."
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"I am ceaselessly waiting for you in the burning fire of waiting forever. It may not end today, tomorrow, or ever."
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"Learn more. Love more. Laugh more. Live more."
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"You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people's happiness suffocate."
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"I am deeply in love with the world and its contents. My heartaches when I see any suffering so kindness and altruism is my ultimate way of life."
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"Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had."
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"It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise."
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