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• Obedience out of love is joy.

  Heidi Baker

  Love Is, Compassion, Obedience

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• You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kindles joy in the heart of one who receives.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Kindness, Heart, Giving

  "The Ladder of the Beatitudes". Book by Jim Forest, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

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• Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Inspiration, Love Is, Infinite

  Sri Aurobindo Mandir, Calcutta, Aurobindo Ghose (1943). “Annual”

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• You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Relationship, Soulmate, Stars

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• It's the sheer joy of seeing things grow and helping them to grow, even harvesting the stuff that you've grown yourself, no matter how old you are.

  Peter Cundall

  Garden, Matter, Stuff

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• True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.

  Zig Ziglar

  Monday, True Joy, Inspire

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Mar 30, 2014

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• When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Gratitude, Prayer, Children

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.91, Barbour Publishing

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• The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Art, Inspirational Life

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• Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?

  Caroline Norton

  Children, Famous Inspirational, Suffering

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• The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it.

  Lloyd Dobyns

  Life, Motivational, Pride

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• People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!

  May Sarton

  Talking, People, Suffering

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• Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Two, Laughing

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• If everything is happy go-lucky all the time, you don't know when you're experiencing joy and feeling life at its finest moments. You have to suffer a little.

  Corey Taylor

  Memorable, Feelings, Suffering

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• The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.

  George Lois

  Creative, After Hours, Sublime

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• The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Intellectual, Pleasure, Theory

  Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• Every day  take a few minutes and focus on SEEING yourself in joy. FEEL yourself in joy. IMAGINE only joy ahead in your life and see yourself basking in it You can't be in joy if you have money worries, or health worries, or relationship problems with friends or family. So deposit some joy in the bank of the Universe as often as you can. There isn't an investment that is more worthwhile.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Worry, Focus, Relationship Problem

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness.

  Dan Millman

  Perfection, Secret, Sorrow

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.276, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health.

  Mark Nepo

  Features

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.294, Conari Press

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• Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.

  Yoko Ono

  Inspirational, Ocean, Thinking

  Twitter post from Oct 06, 2015

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• I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?

  Mary Cassatt

  Art, People, Compare

  Mary Cassatt (2006). “Cassatt”, New Line Books

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• Life is all business. Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field we spend our energy. We never use our time, energy, speech, or ability to do something that doesn't help us grow and improve our life. It's not worth it.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Energy, Use, Speech

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• The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.

  Seth Godin

  Fun, Successful, Giving

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Devil, Entertainment, Substitutes

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• Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Yoga, Keys

  B.K.S Iyengar (2001). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-3”, p.32, Allied Publishers

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• I think we each have a personal sweet spot as well. It's the state of mind in which we experience the most joy and satisfaction in being ourselves. And from that place of pleasure and joy in being ourselves, energy arises to flow out into our day bringing with it the depth and resonance of our own beingness, bringing with it blessing.

  David Spangler

  Positive, Being Yourself, Sweet

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