"The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with."

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"The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with."

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"To celebrate man is to celebrate God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian 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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"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."

Matthew Ashford, American Actor

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"Gladness comes from God."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Happiness must be a jealous pet. When you try seeking yours out, it tends to keep hidden. But as soon as you turn to help a friend find his, your own happiness comes bounding out of the darkness like some crazed animal."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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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."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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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."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Spread your happiness to others and let them spread theirs to you."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit."

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"Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture."

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"Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure."

Writing

"I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer."

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"When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings."

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"I write short stories, and I wrote a play."

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"Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early."

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"My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends."

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"Libraries are where it all begins."

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"Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely."

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