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Joy Quotes
"Life is fulfilling when you are being productive."
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"Those who are happy will make many souls happy."
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"Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great."
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"Happiness simply forms like a rainbow in the kindest and most grateful hearts."
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"One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either."
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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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"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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"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."
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"If what you call happiness are the pleasurable feelings that you experience when things are going very well in your life, then you truly don't know what true happiness is."
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"Joy, like love, is an impenetrable, God-given state of being. The distinctions between joy and happiness and love and affection are important ones under the notion that happiness is an 'iffy' emotion, a highly dependent feeling both aroused and destroyed by external conditions apart from God. And the distinction between love and affection is parallel to such."
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"Let the giggles fill your mouth because nothing tastes as sweet as laughter."
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"Don't wait for a perfect day. To make it a perfect day, dance the whole day, sing every hour, and love every moment"
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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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"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."
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"Sunshine warms us, as do smiles-which makes me think that smiles are sunbeams reflected off our teeth."
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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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