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• I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.

  Sandrine Bonnaire

  Believe, Love Life, Trying

  "Diamond in the rough". Interview With Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2009.

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• When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

  Lili Taylor

  Essence, Creative, Acting

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• There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

  Patrick Swayze

  Beautiful, Dancing, Care

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• Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?

  Winston Churchill

  Stress, Years, Storm

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• What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.

  Matthew Henry

  Gratitude, Blessing, Work Out

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• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Inspirational Love, Heart

  Khalil Gibran, “Joy And Sorrow Chapter VIII”

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• Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Night, Light

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• For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.

  Rudolf Hilferding

  Fighting, Fields, Economics

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• I believe in the immortality of the Theatre, it is a most joyous place to hide, for all those who have secretly put their childhood in their pockets and run off and away with it, to play on to the end of their days.

  Max Reinhardt

  Running, Believe, Play

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• I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

  Odilon Redon

  Awakening, Spirit, Surprise

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• Magic is not always serious or solemn.
  It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force.

  Scott Cunningham

  Magic, Paganism, Serious

  Scott Cunningham (1985). “Magical Herbalism: The Secret Craft of the Wise”, p.9, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.

  Erica Jong

  Country, Falling In Love, Crazy

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• I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.

  Robert Plant

  Hippie

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.

  Alice Meynell

  Light, Sound, Bishops

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.225, eBookIt.com

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• One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.

  Storm Jameson

  Past, Long, Steps

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.402, A&C Black

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• All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.

  Patricia MacLachlan

  Poetry, Needs, World

  Patricia Maclachlan (2009). “Baby”, p.61, Yearling

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• Wise woman healing teaches the importance of excellent nutrition during pregnancy, understanding that your form your child and yourself from the nourishment you receive in the forty weeks of pregnancy. Excellent nutrition includes pure water, controlled breath, abundant light, loving and respectful relationships, beauty and harmony in daily life, positive, joyous thoughts, and vital foodstuffs.

  Susun Weed

  Wise, Children, Pregnancy

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• Human nature is such that humans can turn to God anywhere at any time, and by believing in His care and protection, and thinking in accordance with this belief, fill their hearts with peace and poise, rebuild their bodies into health and strength, and surround themselves with harmonious and joyous conditions.

  Emmet Fox

  God, Believe, Heart

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• We need not worry about the future, we need not be prophetic about the future, we need not say a single thing about the future. We should be joyous and happy in this moment, and the next moment will be coming out of this moment. It will be suffused with the celebration of this moment, and naturally it will lead you into a higher celebration. The future is going to come out of this present.

  Rajneesh

  Worry, Needs, Next

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• We must reach out to villages even in scorching heat with temperature upto 44 C. We must ensure that no girl child remains illiterate. I request all the social institutions and the media world to create a joyous environment for education in the month of June (when schools re-open), an environment to encourage children to go to school. We will derive the satisfaction of having done a social good.

  Narendra Modi

  Girl, Education, Children

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• Zen is...joyous iconoclasm which respects nothing and no one, particularly itself.

  Dave Brandon

  Iconoclasm

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• Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Prayer, Powerful

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1924). “The Reality of Prayer”, p.14, CCEL

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• As you pass through bhakti yoga, as you pass through love, you're elated. You're fulfilled and you're joyous.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Love You, Bhakti

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• I don't think the role of style is different for a woman of any age. Style, to me, is about experimenting with what gives you pleasure, a joyous expression of imagination. I emphasize joyous because too much is written about fashion that takes the pleasure away - clothes that make you look thinner or clothes that make you look younger or, horrors, clothes that make other people envy you or that - double horrors - are "age appropriate".

  Elizabeth Heyert

  Fashion, Thinking, Expression

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use them in every possible form, as well as that he may do with the most perfect freedom; therefore, whether he wishes to make the subject of a joyous, solemn, or meditative character, by flinging over it the cheerful aspect which the sun bestows, by a proper disposition of shade, or by the appearances that beautify its arising or its setting, a true "General Effect" should never be lost sight of.

  John Constable

  Powerful, Character, Artist

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