"The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness."

Joy, Wisdom, Cheerfulness, Peace, Clarity

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"The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness."

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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

Joy, Activism, Politics, Hope

"Wherever you go, be the thunder of joy and the wind of optimism."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Joy, Optimism, Thunder, Wind

"Gladness comes from God."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Joy, Gladness, God, Life

"Chasing the external to achieve joy is a death-trap for personal-development."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Joy, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"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."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Joy, Humor, Happiness, Truth, Wisdom

"I am ceaselessly waiting for you in the burning fire of waiting forever. It may not end today, tomorrow, or ever."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Joy, Waiting, Fire, Endless, Eternal

"Learn more. Love more. Laugh more. Live more."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Joy, Learn, Love, Laugh, Live

"You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people's happiness suffocate."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Joy, Happiness, Life, Others

"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."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Joy, Love, Altruism, Suffering, Kindness

"If you can play with your pain, every day would be a party."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Joy, Pain, Play, Party

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"The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence."

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"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."

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"The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere."

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"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will."

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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."

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"No pleasure has any savor for me without communication."

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"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."

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"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."

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"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."

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