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Joy Quotes
"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."
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"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
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"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
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"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."
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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."
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"I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it."
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"You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!"
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"Our favourite amusement during that winter was tobogganing. In places the shore of the lake rises abruptly from the water's edge. Down these steep slopes we used to coast. We would get on our toboggan, a boy would give us a shove, and off we went! Plunging through drifts, leaping hollows, swooping down upon the lake, we would shoot across its gleaming surface to the opposite bank. What joy! What exhilarating madness! For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine!"
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"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."
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"We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy."
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"Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy."
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"Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene."
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"A little orange will put a spring into your day."
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"Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it."
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"Laughter and imagination can overcome any ill-felt sensations."
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"There is no happiness in what worldly people believe happiness in, there is happiness in what Gnani [the enlightened one] believes the happiness in. What people regard as happiness is not happiness."
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"Joy always follows on the heels of pain. If a person escapes a mindset that current events represent an ongoing tragedy, they will encounter and comprehend all the beauty that surrounds them. We find bliss by living alertly and unequivocally accepting whatever is occurring in the present moment. If a person realizes that the present moment is all that matters, they will gain an inner stillness and appreciate the beauty and joy of each day."
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"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."
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"Laughing deeply is living deeply."
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"Happiness is so simple in life:If I laugh then you are laughing too."
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"All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine."
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"What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?"
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"Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role."
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"For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy."
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"How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
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