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• May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Happiness, Christmas, Laughter

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• You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Said

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.292, Harvard University Press

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• I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

  Louise Bogan

  Happiness, Beauty, Encouragement

  Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, War, Delight

  Sonnet 8

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• Being, not doing, is my first joy.

  Theodore Roethke

  Firsts

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.316, Anchor

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• Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Art, Men, Expression

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• No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

  Red Skelton

  Happiness, Laughter, Heartache

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• All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Real, Looks

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• May all beings learn how to nourish themselves with joy each day.

  Nhat Hanh

  Each Day, May

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• A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Freedom, Recipes, Life Is

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Prophet (1923) "On Work"

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• Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Helping, Pale

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Happiness, Sorrow

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• We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Patience, Wisdom

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.111, Om Books International

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• Without joy in your life you are powerless.

  Joyce Meyer

  Happiness, Laughter, Powerless

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• Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Dizzy, Giddy

  "Minna von Barnhelm" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, II. 3, September 30, 1767.

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• He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

  William Blake

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.6, Wordsworth Editions

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• Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love, Mind, Dominance

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2009

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• Joy needs no object; it is our own nature.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Needs, Objects

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• Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Making Love, Paint

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• A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Laughter, Kindness, Heart

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• Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Nature

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.

  John Dryden

  Life, Night, And Love

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.146

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• For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

  James Whistler

  Art, Hands, Together

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.120, Courier Corporation

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• The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.

  Martin Buber

  Heart, Holy, Universe

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