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• I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.

  Michael Jackson

  Life, Children, Ambition

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 27, 2013

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• From the great trees the locusts cry
  In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy
  Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove
  In the blue distance sobs-the wind
  Wanders by, heavy with odors
  Of corn and wheat and melon vines;
  The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze
  Greets them, one by one-now the oak
  Now the great sycamore, now the elm.

  Hamlin Garland

  Summer, Distance, Boys

  Hamlin Garland (1961). “Boy Life on the Prairie”, p.178, U of Nebraska Press

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• When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive!

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Gratitude, Love You, Alive

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• When we give way to joy, we do not feel that we have lost control, but gained freedom.

  Jane Roberts

  Giving, Way, Lost

  Jane Roberts (2000). “ESP Power”, p.130, Frederick Fell Publishers

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• Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Compass, Born, Knows

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• The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heaven, Sorrow, Earth

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.117, Barbour Publishing

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• True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

  Sidney Poitier

  Meaningful, Differences, Creating

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• There can be no joy without gratitude.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Gratitude

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

  Michele Cassou

  Discovery, Paint, Strokes

  Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.28, Penguin

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• From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Sorry, Humility, Loss

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• Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.

  Edgar Guest

  Children, Jewels, Years

  Edgar Albert Guest, “The Children”

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• Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Sorrow, Helping, Burden

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• The present joys of life we doubly taste,
  By looking back with pleasure to the past.

  Martial

  Past, Taste, Pleasure

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• Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Silence, Reason, Midst

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• Those whose lives are fruitful to themselves, to their friends, or to the world are inspired by hope and sustained by joy: they see in imagination the things that might be and the way in which they are to be brought into existence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Imagination, World, Might

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Roads to Freedom”, p.139, Routledge

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• ...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Men, Public Opinion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

  Jean Paul

  Sad, Sorrow, Knows

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• Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Moving Forward, Ideas, Sugar

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.205, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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.

  Edward Abbey

  Survival, Doe, Useless

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Absence, Discomfort

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.389, Macmillan

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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

  Pain, Journey, Growth

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• But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s soul a reflection of the partner’s moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing. That is the beauty of love, whether in passion or friendship. A sharing that multiplies the joys and thins the pains.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Laughter, Pain, Passion

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• Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy.

  Megan Hart

  Grief, Trying, Comfort

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• Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ends, Make Sense, Sentences

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

  Henri Nouwen

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Spiritual

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.85, Image

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