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 | "All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That
when you get an easy thing, You find you haven"t got it." | |
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Eugene Field
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| "Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created
for pleasure: you were created for Joy. And if you do not know the
difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live." | |
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Thomas Merton
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| "Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." | |
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Emily Dickinson
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| "Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find
expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy." | |
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Unknown
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| "Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God"s eye is on
the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God
is true joy." | |
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Alfred Armand Montapert
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| "He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he
who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity"s sunrise." | |
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William Blake
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| "If we could share this world below, If we could learn to love... If
we could share this world below, We"d need no world above." | |
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Ray Faraday Nelson
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| "It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and
in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys." | |
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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| "Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs
by." | |
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Carl Sandburg
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| "Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable
fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called
words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of
the heart." | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| "People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I
find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life ? to learn
something is a joy to me." | |
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August Strindberg
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| "Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your
joys." | |
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André Gide
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| "Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow." | |
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Proverb
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| "The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart,
in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our heart; that is, in all our
understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is, in all our will
without gainsaying. In all our their ought; that is, that we think on Him
without forgetting. In this manner is very love and true, that is work of
man"s will. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so
that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and
therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the
perfection of this life." | |
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Richard Rolle
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| "The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane
victories that give us our own small satisfactions." | |
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Billy Joel
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| "There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths,
which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them,
and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and
then fly away." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "There?s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away." | |
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Lord George Gordon Byron
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| "We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy
in the world." | |
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Helen Adams Keller
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| "When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from
beneath your feet." | |
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Stanislaw J. Lec
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