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• Work, look for peace and calm in work: You will find it nowhere else. Pleasures flit by -- they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Long, Looks, Calm

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• Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

  Enrico Fermi

  People, Hearing, Underestimate

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• There is more healing joy in five minutes of true worship than in five nights of revelry.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Healing, Night, Worship

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• Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Harmony, Heal, Whole

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• I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity, to name a few.

  Brené Brown

  Creativity, Black And White, Love Is

  "Living Brave". Interview with Mary Sykes Wylie, Rich Simon, www.psychotherapynetworker.org. September, 2016.

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• The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Heart, Air

  Nick Cave (2007). “The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013”, p.23, Penguin UK

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• You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

  John Ortberg

  Everyday, Contentment, Everyday Life

  John Ortberg (2014). “Soul Keeping Study Guide: Caring for the Most Important Part of You”, p.54, Harper Collins

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• When you're feeling joyful, you are giving joy, and you'll receive back joyful experiences, joyful situations, and joyful people, wherever you go. From the smallest experience of your favorite song playing on the radio to bigger experiences of receiving a pay raise -- all of the circumstances you experiences are the law of attraction responding to your feeling of joy.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Song, Law Of Attraction

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Joy attracts more joy. Happiness attracts more happiness. Peace attracts more peace. GRATITUDE attracts more GRATITUDE. Kindness attracts more kindness. Love attracts more love.
  Your job is an inside one. To change your world, all you have to do is change the way you feel inside. How easy is that?

  Rhonda Byrne

  Love, Inspirational, Change

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “Secret Daily Teachings”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

  Euripides

  Emotional, Feelings, Despair

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.

  Euripides

  Song, Heart, Cheerfulness

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• We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life.

  Joko Beck

  Happiness, Brain, Needs

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• There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.

  Erich Fromm

  Happiness, Thinking, Ashamed

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• When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving, and getting and giving again.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Heart, Giving, Dancing

  Lewis B. Smedes (2002). “A Life of Distinction: What It Takes to Live with Courage, Honesty, and Gratitude”, Shaw

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• The highest thought is always a thought which contains joy.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Highest

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• Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.

  George Santayana

  Spiritual, Lying, Soul

  George Santayana (1936). “The Philosophy of Santayana”

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• Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Snow, Endure

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• Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Happiness, Winning, Jewels

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• Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my heart and shine for Your glory. This is what I live for. Amen, amen.

  Thomas Merton

  Heart, Fire, Light

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

  Huston Smith

  Fullness, Supreme, Destroyed

  Huston Smith (2009). “The World's Religions, Revised and Updated: A Concise Introduction”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe.

  Goran Persson

  Pain, Air, Breathe

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• To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Way, Path, Duty

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• In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Rewards, Action, Glory

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• Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Desire, Path, Ifs

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• The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving.

  William Arthur Ward

  Giving, Thrill, Lasting

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