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• What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

  Saint Augustine

  What Matters, Doe, Findings

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• Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who is gone at last! Even muggles like yourself should be celebrating this happy, happy day.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sorry, Upset, Muggles

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone”, p.11, Pottermore

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• Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom.

  Khalil Gibran

  Country, Strong, Heaven

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• We will not "forget" so as to be able to rejoice; we will rejoice and therefore let those memories (of wrongs suffered) slip out of our minds!

  Miroslav Volf

  Memories, Mind, Able

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• Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

  Doreen Valiente

  Heart, Humility, Compassion

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• And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.

  Khalil Gibran

  Crush, Gratitude, Recovery

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity really gives peace, and if we really want peace, then patriotism is a leftover from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and taught, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule. If Christianity is the truth, and if we wish to live in peace, then we must not only have no sympathy for the power of our country, but must even rejoice in its weakening and contribute to it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Dream, Country, Teaching

  "Patriotism or Peace" by Leo Tolstoy, 1896.

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• What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

  Mark Twain

  Marriage, Running, Heart

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864”, p.86, Univ of California Press

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• Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.

  James Branch Cabell

  Life, Tasks, Useless

  James Branch Cabell (1930). “The Cream of the Jest: The Lineage of Lichfield, Two Comedies of Evasion”

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• Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Happiness, Men

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• Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Long, Age

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• What makes this danger so terrible is that humans tip the balance of your world. No other species can make such a difference, for good or ill. If humans can live in harmony with other forms of life, the world rejoices. If not, the world suffers--and may not survive.

  T.A. Barron

  Differences, Suffering, Balance

  T. A. Barron (2011). “The Eternal Flame”, p.223, Penguin

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• Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even in our selfish loves: The decorative manias we obey Die in grimaces round us every day, Yet through their tohu-bohu comes a voice Which utters an absurd command - Rejoice.

  W. H. Auden

  Selfish, Stupid, Voice

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• My soul is always lifted up, and my spirit cheered and comforted, when I hear good music. I rejoice in it very much indeed.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Music, Soul, Spirit

  Joseph Fielding Smith (1971). “Gospel Doctrine”

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• Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.

  Iain Pears

  New Beginnings, World, Disaster

  Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.157, Penguin

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• Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

  Aeschylus

  Literature, Fortune, Good Fortune

  Aeschylus (1965). “The Oresteia trilogy: (Agamemnon, Choephoroe [and] Eumenides) [and] Prometheus bound”

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• It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Laughter, Heart

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• My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sadness, Humility, Thinking

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• Rejoice when other scientists do not believe what you know to be true. It will give you extra time to work on it in peace. When they start claiming that they have discovered it before you, look for a new project.

  Efraim Racker

  Believe, Hard Work, Knowledge

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• Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.

  Thomas Merton

  Thanksgiving, Knowledge Of God, Christian Thanksgiving

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.46, Macmillan

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• How sad. How frightening. To be filled with so much hate that you could not even rejoice in the healing of a child...How did anyone ever come to that point?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Children, Hate, Healing

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• Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Philosophy, Knowing, Ends

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• See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices.

  Charles Kingsley

  Easter, Sleep, Winter

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Andromeda and Other Poems: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.229, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is great that even before we become enlightened or generate any lam-rim realizations we are able to offer incredible benefit to others. The person who does this is a very fortunate person and should rejoice very often.

  Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Doe, Realization

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• I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, "That's the grave of Catherine Earnshaw? I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I've loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her: I shall be sorry that I must leave them!" Will you say so, Heathcliff?

  Emily Bronte

  Children, Sorry, Past

  "Wuthering Heights". Book by Emily Brontë, 1847.

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