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Joy Quotes
"He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I'd always know even if I never saw him again."
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"When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you."
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"To Tengo, sexual desire was fundamentally an extension of a means of communication. And so, to look for sexual desire in a place where there was no possibility of communication seemed inappropriate to him."
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"Joy is meant to be felt; its not meant to be detained. It is meant to be shared with others; not to be felt alone. When all the mouths smile out their teeth together, thats when the greatest happiness can be measured. You don't smile in order to see your friends cry and claim your joy is divine."
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"The moment you feel joy, the moment you laugh and change your perception, you change your immunity, your body chemistry, and your whole well-being."
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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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"The best bubbly I ever tasted was laughter."
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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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"To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow from which to distinguish the sound of joy."
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"Just for a moment there was an unusual feeling of bliss. Strange word, he thought. It's one of those words that describe something that does not make a noise but, if it did make a noise, would sound just like that. Bliss. It's like the sound of a soft meringue melting gently on a warm plate."
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"Birds that cannot fly high into the sky rejoice exceedingly and sing sweet melodies when they get to the top of the tallest tree on the highest mountain!"
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"Learn more. Love more. Laugh more. Live more."
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"Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home, it's your responsibility to love it, or change it."
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"Happiness manifest when the ordained is realized."
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"It is so simple, to be happy think happiness."
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"Every morning I wake up with an unknown, unexplainable joy of life. Then I get lost in the beauty of the morning sun and all of the magnificence that surrounds me."
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"I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy."
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"We want it visible to showwhen even the most visible joy will reveal itselfonly when we have transformed it within.there's nowhere, my love, the world can existexpect within."
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"In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15)."
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"It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam."
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"Your first reaction to any attack should be joy in the Holy Ghost."
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