"Joy always came after pain."

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"Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"You're the funniest thing she knows. That's why she always draws you in color."

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"Beppu (n.)The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

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"It is a happy talent to know how to play."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"She couldn't take her eyes from the dancing flame. No, this was so wrong. Candles should be used for meditation for romance. Or on a birthday cake at least.So where was the cake? The present? The song? As he stepped closer to her-as the damned flame got way too close-she started singing. "Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. Marcus paused, looking at her in disbelief. See. I knew he didn't have a sense of humor. "Happy birthday, dear Gabi-she lifted her head and blew out the candle-"happy birthday to me."

Cherise Sinclair, American Author

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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."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

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"If what you call happiness are the pleasurable feelings that you experience when things are going very well in your life, then you truly don't know what true happiness is."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"Glee! The great storm is over!"

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Far more than the shield is the Pleasure I get on the field . . . the Joy of the chase is greater than the result of the race."

R.V.M., Indian Author

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"Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman."

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"One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere."

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"I hate artists who are not of their time."

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