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“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”
“Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling.”
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,the more joy you can contain.Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?And is not the lute that soothes you...”
“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
“Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.”
“If she know how strongly he felt, she'd have run out the door. He wasn't used to the possessive, or the savage joy she brought to his heart. It ate at his control, so he turned his attention to the...”
“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.”
“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”
“Scatter joy!”
“The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numb...”
“On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd”
“Joy is strength.”
“Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift ofte...”
“No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.”
“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”
“There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.”
“Something I constantly notice is that unembarrassed joy has become rarer. Joy today is increasingly saddled with moral and ideological burdens, so to speak. When someone rejoices, he is afraid of o...”
“There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.”
“Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.”
