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• Joy is the highest expression of love.

  Esther Hicks

  Love, Expression, Highest

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• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

  Robert Browning

  Rocks, Water, Pool

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Graduation, Hate

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.119, Beacon Press

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• One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Relationship, Thank You, Giving

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• We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

  Max De Pree

  Life, Beautiful, Healing

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are always people who have had a hard time. Then the joy has no smugness or self-righteousness in it, is inclusive not exclusive, and comes close to prayer.

  May Sarton

  Prayer, Real, Artist

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.127, Open Road Media

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• Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

  Charles Du Bos

  Life, Happiness, Creativity

  Charles Du Bos (1940). “What is literature?”

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• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• To have joy, one must share it.

  Lord Byron

  Share

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• If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Happy Birthday, Happiness, Waiting

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• The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

  Pema Chodron

  Resentment, Obstacles, Connecting

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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  A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

  John Keats

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

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• Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

  Euripides

  Character, Discipline, Guilty

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• We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.

  Mitsugi Saotome

  Real Joy, Challenges, Growth

  Mitsugi Saotome (1993). “Aikido and the Harmony of Nature”, p.340, Shambhala Publications

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• A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Good Morning, Peace

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• Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Real, Winning

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• Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Positive, Happiness, Happy

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• It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

  Amelia Barr

  Inspiration, Positive Attitude, Sunny Weather

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.173, Litres

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• To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Happiness, Beautiful, Heart

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• A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Happiness, Hurt, Laughter

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.130, Macmillan

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• To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Work, Teaching, Learning

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Happiness, Time, Mean

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.165, Penguin

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• Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Lying, Fighting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Hurt, Pain

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 22, 2014

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