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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.
-Chinese Proverb
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. John 4
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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Philippians 4:4
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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.
-William Blake
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?
-Tony Campolo
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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.
-Dr. Melba Colgrove
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
-Pierre Coneille
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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
-Confucius
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.
-William Congreve
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We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.
-R. W. Dale
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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!
-Emily Dickinson
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For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
-John Dryden
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All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.
-Eugene Field
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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.
-Jessie B. Fremont
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Joys divided are increased.
-Josiah Gilbert Holland
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
-Elbert Hubbard
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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
-C.S. Lewis
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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
-Rollo May
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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
-Michel de Montaigne
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Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.
-Alfred A. Montapert
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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love
-Mother Theresa
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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked
-Anais Nin
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Books about Joy, Excitement
