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• To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Monday, Work

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• A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Baptists, Tongue

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• I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Sometimes, Wonder

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.

  Mother Teresa

  Sacrifice, Self, Clothes

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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• Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

  Rollo May

  Emotional, Goal, Experience

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

  Dale Carnegie

  Men, Action, Old Man

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• Patience is the key to joy.

  Rumi

  Keys

  Jalalu'l-Din Rumi, Jawid Mojaddedi (2008). “The Masnavi, Book One”, p.10, Oxford University Press

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• This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, True Joy, Long

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• A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

  John Keats

  Happiness, Beauty, Nature

  Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

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• When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

  Tecumseh

  Good Morning, Strength, Thanksgiving

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• Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

  Karl Barth

  Inspirational, Thank You, Gratitude

  "Finding the Magnificent in Lower Mundane : Extraordinary Stories About An Ordinary Place". Book by Bob Stromberg, 1994.

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• True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything.

  Paul Pearsall

  True Joy, Results, Connectedness

  Paul Pearsall (1988). “Super joy: in love with living”, Doubleday Books

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• Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Happiness, Positivity

  "Selected Letters". Edited by Thomas H. Johnson,

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• Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Happiness, Depression

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• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Leadership, Uplifting

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• Joy is strength- Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Strength, Real Joy, True Joy

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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• A joy shared is a joy doubled.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Friendship, Real, Real Friends

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• Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  God, Faith, Peace

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• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Happiness, Being Happy

  1596-7 Graziano toAntonio.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.1, l.79-80.

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• It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Hope

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.

  Marianne Williamson

  Joy To The World

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Men, Addiction

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• And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Blue, Sky, Serenity

  Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana”, p.96, 1st World Publishing

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