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• What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Sweet, Taken, Years

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• The soul's joy lies in doing.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Happiness, Laughter, Lying

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• It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

  Moliere

  Love, Thinking, Fine

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• Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Men, States

  John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst, Joseph Warton (1793). “The Adventurer”, p.216

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• I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

  Zhuangzi

  Passion, Journey, Walking Away

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• Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Spiritual, Quests, Remember

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• There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

  Robert Gilfillan

  Happiness, Pain, Heart

  Robert Gilfillan, William Anderson (1851). “Poems and Songs: With Memoir of the Author, and Appendix of His Latest Pieces”, p.163

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• The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences; woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance.

  Karl Barth

  Happiness, Inspiration, Men

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• Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mother, Dissipation

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• To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.

  Hans Arp

  Littles, Little Things

  "Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs". Book by Hans Arp, Gallimard, Paris, p. 571 (the book gathers almost all Arp's writings in prose and some important poetry), 1966.

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• Cultivate your garden… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you … follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.

  Will Durant

  Teacher, Garden, Curiosity

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• I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

  Winston Churchill

  Paint, Enjoyment

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Blood, Intoxication, Clear

  "Letters to a Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter Nine (4 November 1904), 1934.

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• And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.

  Jack Kerouac

  Ignorance, Sorrow, Way

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys his paints upon his palette. Behind every Chesterton sentence there was someone painting with words, and it seemed to me that at the end of any particularly good sentence or any perfectly-put paradox, you could hear the author, somewhere behind the scenes, giggling with delight.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reading, Writing, Artist

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.28, HarperCollins

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• He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.

  Albrecht Durer

  Art, Would Be, Delight

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• The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

  James Broughton

  Explosions

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• The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment.

  Winslow Homer

  Giving, Hours, Give Me

  1895 Letter to his brother, Charles, 23 Feb.

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• I buy art in order to live with it at home or in the office, never to store it away in a vault. In fact, living with art has been one of the great joys of my life. It is a private pleasure, however, and not one that I have an urge to inflict on other people.

  Michael Audain

  Art, Home, Order

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• I get my highs from using my eyes.

  Philip Pearlstein

  Eye

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• The real joy is in discovering that the twigs and branches of my practice are all firmly rooted in a single tree, even as time goes by and I become increasingly aware of the fleetingness of all things.

  James Nares

  Real, Practice, Tree

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• Each killing steals a bit of humanity until a murderer is nothing more than an animal. A hunger replaces the spirit. A want for what was lost, but as with innocence, the soul can never be replaced. Joy, love, and peace flee such a vessel and in their stead blooms a desire for blood and death.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Animal, Blood, Humanity

  Michael J Sullivan (2013). “The Crown Tower: Book 1 of The Riyria Chronicles”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

  Tom Bodett

  Love, Happiness, Happy

  Tom Bodett (1985). “As Far As You Can Go Without a Passport: The View from the End of the Road : Comments and Comic Pieces”, Perseus Books

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• Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

  John Dryden

  Fate, Sorrow, Flow

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• At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

  Jean Houston

  Positive, Happiness, Gratitude

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