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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
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True joy of nature is when every drop of water shines like a pearl.
Anamika Mishra
The sheer delight of the outdoors is when every droplet glistens like a gem.
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In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. Of course, it's no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you're going to win or lose and focus your full attention on what's happening right this moment.
Phil Jackson
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There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality.
Gabrielle Roth
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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
George Bernard Shaw
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
Henri Nouwen
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There is a purpose in life--to raise men nearer to the likeness of God. Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy; and in no other way can true joy be found.
John Andreas Widtsoe
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To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.
Abdu'l-Bahá
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In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.
Phil Jackson
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Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.
Shunryu Suzuki
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True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.
Zig Ziglar
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
John Donne
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As runners, we all go through many transitions-- transitions that closely mimic the larger changes we experience in a lifetime. First, we try to run faster. Then we try to run harder. Then we learn to accept ourselves and our limitations, and at last, we can appreciate the true joy and meaning of running.
Amby Burfoot
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True joy is independence of circumstances - Choose to rejoice!
Andrew Wommack
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
George Bernard Shaw
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Joy is what we all seek. It is an energy more powerful than food. But without love we can not feel true joy.
Akiane Kramarik
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True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.
John Ortberg
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True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything.
Paul Pearsall
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Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.
Peter Rollins
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The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.
Joseph Epstein
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As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller
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True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.
Saint Augustine
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You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.
Eileen Caddy
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Joy is strength- Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy.
Mother Teresa
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard Shaw
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The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.
Francis Chan
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Universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and ought to teach-nay, which I feel quite sure they were originally meant to teach-something that may not have a marketable value before a Board of Examiners, but which has a permanent value for the whole of our life, and that is a real interest in our work, and, more than that, a love of our work, and, more than that, a true joy and happiness in our work.
Max Muller
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We'll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen. True joy can't be anticipated or planned. It just strikes.
Harriet Lerner
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
Seneca the Younger
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To begin to understand your Soul as an integral part of yourself and begin to connect with your Soul as a part of your full being and your true nature, is the beginning of wisdom and the portal to true joy.
Genevieve
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There is no real and true joy of if that joy is not imbued with love. Love cannot exist without joy.
Torkom Saraydarian
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True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.
Thomas S. Monson
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There is no true joy in a life lived closed up in the little shell of the self. When you take one step to reach out to people, when you meet with others and share their thoughts and sufferings, infinite compassion and wisdom well up within your heart. Your life is transformed.
Daisaku Ikeda
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True joy comes only from God and He shares this joy with those who walk in fellowship with Him.
Jerry Bridges
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I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.
Helen Keller
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Dr. Lipsenthal is a profound explorer of our inner and outer worlds. Enjoy Every Sandwich will help you heal your fear of death and embrace the true joy of life's extraordinary journey.
Edgar Mitchell
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
Seneca the Younger
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True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments.
Kazuo Koike
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True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.
Clive Barker
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The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.
Marcus Aurelius
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I love to be with my twins. They are my true joy in life.
Nancy Grace
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I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and rebirth, that we must come to despise earthly joy and suffering, and long only for the peace of the presence of the eternal. Yet I love this life on Earth, Morgan, and I love you with a love that is stronger than death, and if sin is the price of binding us together, life after life across the ages, then I will sin joyfully and without regret, so that it brings me back to you, my beloved!
Marion Zimmer Bradley
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True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.
Emanuel Geibel