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Joy Quotes
"Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose."
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"I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy."
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"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."
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"Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want."
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"Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe."
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"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
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"Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path."
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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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"At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities."
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"What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?"
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"There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town."
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"Joy breathes from within,It is not in things but a sense of well-being,an inner peace in harmony with our soul.True joy in our life gives us more energy.Live joyfully!There are elements in the society and of this world that disrupt such inner joy, peace and harmony within our soul and how we may feel and carry this depends on our individual coping mechanism."
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"Their Love said, 'Made for Each OtherOur Love says, 'Made from Each Other"
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"The face of a truly happy man seldom lacks smiles."
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"Isn't God the one who urges us to 'Make a joyful noise unto the Lord'? Why do we always think that means singing? Seems to me the most obvious joyful sound on earth is laughter... I've seen folks quote verses like 'Rejoice in the Lord always' while their faces look like they just buried a rich uncle who willed everything to his pregnant guinea pig. Something is missing."
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"Instead of imposing new obligations, (Christians) should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet."
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"What kind of plan B?' Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, 'My kind.' Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a flash. It had been a simple moment of peace and joy and pure happiness. That voice made Hale happy. It kept him calm. It was his backup and his conscience. Macey couldn't help herself, she envied him."
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"I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed."
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"For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers."
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"In the individual who is characterized by independence without corresponding relatedness, there will develop hostility toward those whom he believes to be the occasion of his isolation. In the individual who is symbiotically dependent there will develop hostility toward those whom he regards as instrumental in the suppression of his capacities and freedom."
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"The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; but to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies."
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"Happiness is not giddiness or some overly inflated sense of being."
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"If she's not alright, I'm going to rip out his heart and eat it.' I nodded. 'You really shouldn't eat raw meat,' Chubs said."
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"Hannah ran past, beaming. I remember that feeling-when you're a kid and it's your birthday and for one day everyone makes you feel like the most special person in the world."
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"Don't take life seriously, because seriousness kills creativity and joy."
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"Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing."
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"I think happy thoughts and feel happy things and I do not let myself near the swirling black edges of the hole that is my soul when I look at them."
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"You won't find a vampire in a Ford Fiesta"
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"Good heavens of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons."
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"Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless. Therefore the frogs, the toads, keep on singing even though we know, if they don't, that the sound of their uproar must surely be luring all the snakes and ringtail cats and kit foxes and coyotes and great horned owls toward the scene of their happiness."
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"The joy of small that makes life large."
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