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Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment

-Phillip Gary

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As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

-Criss Jami

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It’s not strength, it’s PERCEPTION that makes you stronger. If you change how you SEE it, you’ll change how you FEEL about it.

-Yvonne Pierre

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This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.

-Wendy Beckett

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Every time I look into her eyes, I get a positive inspiration to serve humanity.

-Durgesh Satpathy

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I want to thank you for the profound joy I’ve had in the in the thought of you.

-Rosie Alison

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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. … Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that...

-John Muir

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Good dancers awaken the joy in our hearts, we have seen them ablaze on stage, videos, on our streets, in the theaters, in our homes, schools and they have successfully ignited the love of dancing in our soul. At least, this is the major reason why dancers are born and made.

-Paul Bamikole

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Reading is an addiction that I adore.

-Vianka Van

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In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so – that it is fundamentally alien to our being, this even though we all suffer, and frequently. Yet we reject suffering as a basic human truth, while greeting joy as integral to our very substance.

-Wendy Beckett

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Dance,’ they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I danced.’Pray,’ they said, and I laughed,covering myself in the earth’s brightnesses,and then stole off gray into the midst of a revel,and prayed like an orphan.

-Wendell Berry

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Feelings are something you have; not something you are.

-Shannon L.

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Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience.

-Roger Ebert

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The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church and found them under the old cedars… I am finding it a little hard to say that I felt them resting there, but I did. I felt their completeness as whatever they had been in the world.I...

-Wendell Berry

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We are working well when we use ourselves as the fellow creatures of the plants, animals, materials, and other people we are working with. Such work is unifying, healing. It brings us home from pride and from despair, and places us responsible within the human estate. It defines us as we are: not too good...

-Wendell Berry

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You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.

-Shannon L.

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Top 10 Deathbed Regrets:1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life other people expected of me.2. I wish I took time to be with my children more when they were growing up.3. I wish I had the courage to express my feelings, without the fear of...

-Shannon L.

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When you spend time worrying, you’re simply using your imagination to create things you don’t want.

-Shannon L.

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Most people are about as happy as their self confidence will allow them to be.

-Shannon L.

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… but happiness is to joy as an electric light bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you’re happy because of something, it’s a condition whose existence depends on external things. Joy, on the other hand, has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it’s like the sun, its burning...

-Susanna Tamaro

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The lesson will always repeat itself, unless you see yourself as the problem–not others.

-Shannon L.

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What separates people who made their dreams come true is not setting goals to achieve a life the way they expect it to be, but how they expect to be, in order to achieve it.

-Shannon L.

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Don’t look for the ninety percent of the darkness in a person’s soul. Look for the ten percent of light they have left, then lend them yours because light was meant to be shared.

-Shannon L.

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True success is not measured by one’s quantity of time upon this earth, but by the quantity of Joy experienced.

-Tom Hackett

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I think people need to know that there’s great peace and joy in knowing the Lord – the Lord Jesus Christ – as your savior.

-Tammy Faye

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It’s hard to beat Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto #5” – got the tunes – got the power – got the joy.

-Stephen Tobolowsky

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Returning to life was not easy, for joy had to find its long unused paths again.

-Väinö Linna

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Just us fancy wise-men trying to take on the world.

-Sapphire Belucci

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What she liked was simply life. “That’s what i did it for,” she said, speaking aloud to life… Could any man understand what she meant, either, about life? …But to go deeper, beneath what people said, and these judgments, how superficial, how fragmentary, they are. In her own mind now, what did it mean to...

-Virginia Woolf

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If I do depart this world out here, let it be known that I went out grinning will you, and loving it. LOVING IT.Steve, are you listening ? I FEEL GREAT. Life’s so joyous, so sad, so ephemeral, so crazy, so meaningless, so goddamn funny. This is paradise, and I wish I could give you...

-Robyn Davidson

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Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is at the origin of art—and he had filled the hole, answered the question, splashed colour on the canvas, all done...

-Yann Martel

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Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command these immortal presences. And she rejoiced in her blood and flesh, in the rough pine bark she felt next to her skin, in the beat of her heart and the life of all...

-Philip Pullman

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True humility means giving joy to others.

-Sri Chinmoy

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The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows.But stories all…

-William Joyce

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Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that’s not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that’s messy but not hurting anybody.

-Vinita Hampton

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There’s no room for anything but joy and fear, and joy ruled the house. Fear lived in the shack out back!

-Stephen King

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Unzip your life right now, air out the putrid and bleach the infection, then invite your childhood dreams back, beckon the best of you and breathe deeper than you have in a very long time. Believe in the holdings of your heart. You can become anyone and anything your heart desires once you clear the...

-Toni Sorenson

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When I die, I shall then have my greatest grief and my greatest joy; my greatest grief, that I have done so little for Jesus, and my greatest joy, that Jesus has done so much for me.

-William Grimshaw

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We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others.

-Seth Adam

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Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light.

-Seth Adam

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In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.

-Vincent Tan

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No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

-Toni Morrison

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Most parents try really hard to give their kids the best possible life. They give them the best food and clothes they can afford, take their own kind of take on training kids to be honest and polite. But what they don’t realize is no matter how much they try, their kids will get out...

-Thisuri Wanniarachchi

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There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.

-R.A. Salvatore

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Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.

-R.A. Salvatore

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La joie réside au plus intime de l’ me; on peut aussi bien la posséder dans une obscure prison que dans un palais.

-Thérèse de

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The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

-Thích Nhất

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Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

-Thích Nhất

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. . . [but] next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is in having someone else do a first-rate job under your direction.

-William Feather

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Joy
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I trust all joy

-Theodore Roethke

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