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Joy Quotes
"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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"You won't find a vampire in a Ford Fiesta"
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"We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifest the very thing we love about ourselves so that they may see it and love us too."
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"There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children, it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about."
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"You're the funniest thing she knows. That's why she always draws you in color."
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"To feel the joy of life, sell your pride and get lost in the simplicity and humility."
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"I felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most."
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"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."
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"Today something unusual happened; I was walking without even knowing, where I was going. I was smiling without any cause. I was just happy without reasons. I can tell you that birds do sing, leaves of trees, do dance, and it's beautiful. I am, a complete nature boy! Maybe, I was fully satisfied that sunlight was falling on my cheek. I got the power to love myself, nature and rest of humankind. Cheers, Everyone!"
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"We exist just to feel the joy of life."
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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."
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"Happiness is not giddiness or some overly inflated sense of being."
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"There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation, refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry."
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"Happiness simply forms like a rainbow in the kindest and most grateful hearts."
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"Before, as soon as I came home from all sorts of places I would sit down and write in my journal. Now I want to write you, talk with you... I love when you say all that happens is good, it is good. I say all that happens is wonderful. For me it is all symphonic, and I am so aroused by living - god, Henry, in you alone I have found the same swelling of enthusiasm, the same quick rising of the blood, the fullness... Before, I almost used to think there was something wrong. Everybody else seemed to have the brakes on... I never feel the brakes. I overflow. And when I feel your excitement about life flaring, next to mine, then it makes me dizzy."
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"Anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm."
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"Those who are happy will make many souls happy."
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"The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness."
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"Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?"
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"For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it."
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"Beppu (n.)The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page."
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