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• The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 24, 2014

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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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• I love the lower ranges of my new voice. I really enjoy that. It's a challenge, and I accept the challenge. I sort of enjoy it now to reach notes that maybe four years ago I couldn't reach. I don't mean to grumble about it. I'm past that critical period and have gone on to a whole new field. And we go everywhere. We travel around the world, and I learn songs from every place we go, and it's a joyful process.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Mean, Past

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Knowing, Wish, World

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• The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Wise, Long

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.192, Courier Corporation

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• Sustain a bright and joyful spirit.

  Cornelia Connelly

  Spirit

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• A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Joy, Alive

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• What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.

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• Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you have to do, you do with play. I think a good way to conceive of sacred space is as a playground. If what you're doing seems like play, you are in it. But you can't play with my toys, you have to have your own. Your life should have yielded some. Older people play with life experiences and realizations or with thoughts they like to entertain. In my case, I have books I like to read that don't lead anywhere.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Time, Fun

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• The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

  Mark Nepo

  Keys, Knowing, Joy

  Mark Nepo (2012). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want By Being Present in the Life You Have”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

  Eleanora Duse

  Summer, Nature, Moving

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• Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life. Indeed, it is an excellent, joyful use of our life. Instead of getting better and better at avoiding, we can learn to accept the present moment as if we had invited it, and work with it instead of against it, making it our ally rather than our enemy.

  Pema Chodron

  Two, Perfect, Enemy

  Pema Chodron (2009). “Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

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• For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Pregnancy, Birth, Conscious

  Sheila Kitzinger (1990). “The Experience of Childbirth”, Viking Press

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• Right now is the time for you to visualize and create your future. Make it as healthy and bright and joyful as you can. It's your life, and you're going to live it.

  Louise Hay

  Healthy, Your Future, Right Now

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• If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mind, Done, May

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• To have a human form is a joyful thing.

  Zhuangzi

  Joy, Form, Humans

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• This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

  Alice Waters

  Thoughtful, Hopeful, Inspire

  "40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering". Book by Alice Waters, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

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• Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

  Seneca the Younger

  Work, Fortune, Deserted

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• I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments, gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Believe, Inspiration

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• The beauty of self realization lies in secretly working out within you everything that is virtuous, that is beautiful, that is joyful.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Beautiful, Wisdom

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• When a soul has advanced so far on the spiritual road as to be lost to all the natural methods of communing with God; when it seeks Him no longer by meditation, images, impressions, nor by any other created ways, or representations of sense, but only by rising above them all, in the joyful communion with Him by faith and love, then it may be said to have found God of a truth, because it has truly lost itself as to all that is not God, and also as to its own self.

  John of the Cross

  Spiritual, Self, Meditation

  "Cántico Espiritual (The Spiritual Canticle)". Book by John of the Cross (Note to Stanza 29, Part 8), 1622.

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• Salvation, O the joyful sound!
  'Tis pleasure to our ears;
  A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound,
  A cordial for our fears.

  Isaac Watts

  Sound, Ears, Reign

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.180

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• The essence of all health begins through joyful living.

  Jesse Dylan

  Essence

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• I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Music, God

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• When you ... see our Father, you will see a being with whom you have long been acquainted, and He will receive you into His arms, and you will be ready to fall into His embrace and kiss Him. ... You will be so glad and joyful. ... When you are qualified and purified, ... you can endure the glory of eternity.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Fall, Kissing

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