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"Deriving truth from joy may be far more easier than generating joy from the truth."
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Personal Development
"Life is a dance dream."
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Personal Development
"Whatever fills your heart with joy and fills your mind with love--that is your truth of love."
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Personal Development
"People lose their enthusiasm and disengage for a variety of reasons. It can be due to boredom, disinterest, rejection, apathy, overwhelm, or exhaustion. Once a person begins to disengage, the tendency can bleed over into other areas of their life and disconnect them from what would actually bring them joy."
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Personal Development
"Share your happiness with others-its contagious!"
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Personal Development
"Do not delay your happiness, be glad in the moment."
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Personal Development
"If you desire a joyful heart, dance daily."
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Personal Development
"To celebrate man is to celebrate God."
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Personal Development
"To find the joy of life, let us love our life unconditionally."
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Personal Development
"To feel the joy too much:let us trust too much,let us love too much, let us hope too muchand let us belong too much."
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"The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with."
Joy
"Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature."
Adversity
"In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things."
Love
"I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on."
Writing
"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."
Education
"I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step."
Writing
"People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable."
People
"I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry."
Music
"Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure."
Writing
"The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something."
Poetry
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