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• You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Enemy, Causes, Misery

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• To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Sacrifice, Self, True Joy

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• One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true-the joy of anticipating is irrevocably yours. That way one can live many more than just one life.

  Maria von Trapp

  Way, Life Is, Human Life

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• May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.

  Carol Emshwiller

  Real, Self, Saying Yes

  Carol Emshwiller (2013). “Carmen Dog”, p.78, Small Beer Press

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• The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

  Eva Hoffman

  Perception, Form, Lucidity

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• As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Heart, Fullness Of Life, Life And Death

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• Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God.

  Kay Warren

  Spiritual, Conviction, Produce

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• Joy is the settled assurance that God is in control of all the details of my life, the quiet confidence that ultimately everything is going to be all right, and the determined choice to praise God in all things.

  Kay Warren

  Choices, Details, Determined

  FaceBook post by Kay Warren from Mar 13, 2012

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• The artesian well of joy never runs dry. We clog it with our thoughts.

  Don Blanding

  Running, Dry, Wells

  Don Blanding (1956). “Joy is an inside job”

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  I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy.

  Shane Koyczan

  Acceptance, Imperfection, Use

  FaceBook post by Shane Koyczan from Apr 08, 2013

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• If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.

  Dale Carnegie

  Gratitude, Thinking, Giving

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.119, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Oxygen, Fleeting, Rising

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• Joy is the true gift of Christmas, and we can communicate this joy simply: with a smile, a kind gesture, a little help, forgiveness. And the joy we give will certainly come back to us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Giving, Gestures, Littles

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• The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love Is, Essence, Feelings

  Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose, Reuben P. Bell (2003). “Divine Love and Wisdom”, p.68, The Swedenborg Foundation

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• Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love Is, Suffering, Convince

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 27, 2014

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• Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fun, Writing, Serious Business

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• Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

  Brené Brown

  Missing, Risk, Busy

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.125, Penguin

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• Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Light, Hot And Cold

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life”, p.35, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence of resourcefulness ; that you can deal with whatever is available around you and not feel poverty stricken.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Essence, Generosity, Poverty

  Chogyam Trungpa (2003). “Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness”, p.41, Shambhala Publications

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• You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Happiness, People, Giving

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Donald Beattie, Delayna Beattie (2001). “Library of Piano Works, Vol 2”, p.7, Alfred Music Publishing

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• The greatest joy comes from giving and serving, so replace your habit of focusing exclusively on yourself and what's in it for you. When you make the shift to supporting others in your life, without expecting anything in return, you'll think less about what you want and find comfort and joy in the act of giving and serving.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Comfort And Joy, Giving

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 24, 2014

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• Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

  John Suckling

  Happiness, Firsts, Misery

  Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.150

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• It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Flower, Dust

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• Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Summer, Dream, Lying

  Samuel Laman Blanchard, “Hidden Joys”

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• You are free to think thoughts of worry or joy, and whatever you choose will attract the same kind back to you. Worry attracts worry. Joy attracts joy.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Positive Thinking, Worry, Kind

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