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Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
Elsa Schiaparelli
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Oh who can tell the range of joy
Or set the bounds of beauty?
Sara Teasdale
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The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.
Jessamyn West
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There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
John Buchan
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
Charles de Lint
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I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
Ossie Davis
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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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In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.
Carl Sagan
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Appreciate how rare and full of potential your situation is in this world, then take joy in it, and use it to your best advantage.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
Francis Bacon
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To him who devotes his life to science nothing can give more happiness than increasing the number of discoveries, but his cup of joy is full when the results of his studies immediately find practical applications.
Louis Pasteur
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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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In the end, those who were carried off early no longer need us:
they are weaned from earth's sorrows and joys, and as gently as children
outgrow the soft breasts of their mothers. But we, who do need
such great mysteries, we for whom grief is so often
the source of our spirit's growth — : could we exist without them?
Rainer Maria Rilke
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What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Artisans, bureaucrats, that's what we writers are! The joys of creation! Novels dashed off in ecstasy in three weeks! Nonsense! Three thousand pages botched and wasted in order to produce two hundred and fifty polished ones.
Colette
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What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.
Isaac Asimov
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If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.
Dante Alighieri
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In truth, the most important thing for curing illnesses and maintaining health is good humor and joy.
René Descartes
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The plants... are the plainest speech of the earth; every new leaf, every remarkable flower is some mystery which is trying to reveal itself, and which remains motionless and dumb only because from very joy and love it can neither move nor speak.
Novalis
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When we hear that Christ was made a curse for us, let us believe it with joy and assurance. By faith Christ changes places with us. He gets our sins, we get His holiness.
Martin Luther
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Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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As soon as the soul has been made to perceive that a thing can conduct it to that which it loves supremely, it must inevitably embrace it with joy.
Blaise Pascal
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine Through Peace to Light.
Adelaide Anne Procter
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