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• Finding the real joy of #‎ Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of #‎ gifts . We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Real, Focus, Joy

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• The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Real, Joy

  Twitter post from Mar 01, 2016

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• The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.

  David O. McKay

  Religious, Stars, Kindness

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• Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Grief, Sunshine

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.184, Wildside Press LLC

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• And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.

  Anne Lamott

  Real, Lying, Moving

  "Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year". Book by Anne Lamott, 1993.

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• Real joy and happiness come from living in such a way that our Heavenly Father will be pleased with us. ... One cannot break God's commandments and be happy. We should remember the scripture, "Wickedness never was happiness"

  W. Eugene Hansen

  Life, Father, Real

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• Modern society seems to be a celebration of all the things that lead away from the Truth, make Truth hard to live for, and discourage people from even believing that it exists.
  And to think that all this springs from a civilization that claims to adore life, but actually starves it of any real meaning; that endlessly speaks of making people “happy”, but in fact blocks their way to the source of real joy.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Block, Spring, Real

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• The real joy in life comes from giving. It comes from service. It comes from doing things for other people. That is what is so powerful about this. Nothing will make you happier than giving.

  Marc Benioff

  Powerful, Real, People

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• I only really watch sport. That's where you see real joy. I don't like watching much else on TV, because it's generally either twisted or sad.

  Roger Milla

  Sports, Real, Joy

  Interview With Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2006.

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• We find real joy when we keep the Savior the focus of the season.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Real, Focus, Joy

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• This is what I want everyone to experience at the end of my concert...
  everyone has this sense of rejoicing.
  I don't want them to be blown away by what I do,
  I want them to have this sense of real, real joy
  from the depths of their being.
  Because I think when you take them to that place,
  then you open up a place where grace can come in.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Real, Thinking, Joy

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• There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Passion, Exercise

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.36, GENERAL PRESS

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• Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The entire length and breadth of the world becomes ours, not for us to rule over, but as an expansion of our consciousness. We become reality and vastness.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Real, Heart, Mean

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like forcing oneself to play football in spite of one's utmost unwillingness. One plays, but gets no joy. Conscious effort is like playing football most willingly. One gets real joy. Similarly, conscious meditation gives us inner Delight from the soul.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Football, Real, Play

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• Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish in that he reaches for too few of the things that bring real joy. He settles for a mess of pottage instead of eternal joy.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Brother, Selfish, Real

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• The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Motivational, Happiness, Real

  Walter Rauschenbusch (2011). “Christianizing the Social Order”, p.248, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

  Alfred Adler

  Morning, Real, Broken

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• There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

  Robert Henri

  Perseverance, Art, Pain

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

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• There's a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.

  Jerry Garcia

  Fun, Real, Joy

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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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• We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.

  Jean Liedloff

  Real, Joy, Life Is Hard

  Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.148, Da Capo Press

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• In the retail business, many people are too consumed with the bottom line. How much am I going to be selling? Am I going to be able to do all the things I need to get done? Instead, if they are at peace and feeling good about themselves - if they are treating customers with love and acting as statesmen and stateswomen and people who are connected to God in a spiritual sense - then every day for them is a real joy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Real, People

  New Age Retailer Interview, www.drwaynedyer.com. November 2005.

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• There is no real joy that does not involve self-denial and self-discipline

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Real, Self, Discipline

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• The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.

  Lynda Barry

  Real, Knowing, Joy

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• I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

  Jeff Bridges

  Movie, Real, Thinking

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