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• The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

  Michael Leunig

  Art, Done, World

  Michael Leunig (2013). “The Holy Fool: Artworks”, p.9, Allen & Unwin

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• There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity; and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Real, Paris, Mourning

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• I think there's just a lot of compassion in art. Again, when you're doing something that resonates with somebody else, you're going through an experience another person has had, whether it's been a painful experience or a joyous experience or a happy experience.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Art, Thinking, Compassion

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I just like the joyous aspect of playing comedy.

  Andre Braugher

  Comedy, Aspect

  "Interview: ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ star Andre Braugher still isn’t sure he’s funny". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. October 5, 2014.

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• O summer day beside the joyous sea!
  O summer day so wonderful and white,
  So full of gladness and so full of pain!
  Forever and forever shalt thou be
  To some the gravestone of a dead delight,
  To some the landmark of a new domain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Pain, July

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Masque of Pandora: And Other Poems”, p.140

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• Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.

  Archibald Geikie

  Summer, Country, Spring

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• According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul.

  John Green

  Real, Eagles, Water

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.245, Penguin

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• Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other practices during each day and night. This is how to bring about the spiritual blessing (baraka) in each period. If each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, Be not like the deceived fools who are joyous because each day their wealth increases while their life grows ever shorter.

  Al-Ghazali

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

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• Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

  Arundhati Roy

  Beautiful, Writing, Fiction

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• Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north,
  With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red?
  And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout?
  And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread?

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Wine, Hands, Feet

  Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “The Battle Of Naseby”

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• It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which power may fall, and does fall, into the, hands of the worst men.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Fall, Men, Organization

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1904). “Essays and Letters”

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• Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Laughter, Water, Laughing

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• Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring
  Lies open, writ in blossoms.

  William Allingham

  Spring, Lying, Book

  William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”

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• You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative life. You are becoming a neuter machine. You cannot love, even if you knew how to begin to love. Every thought is a devil, a hell-if you could do a lot of things over again, ah, how differently you would do them! You want to go home, back to the womb. You watch the world bang door after door in your face, numbly, bitterly. You have forgotten the secret you knew, once, ah, once, of being joyous, of laughing, of opening doors.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Home, Cutting

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.67, Anchor

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• The thing about happiness is that it doesn't help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.

  Lana Turner

  Grateful, Thinking, Bed Of Roses

  Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult

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• Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure.

  Sandra Bullock

  Optimistic, Insecure, Persons

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• I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

  Naveen Andrews

  Relationship, School, Play

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• I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.

  Jason Alexander

  Heartbeat, Easy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.

  Paloma Faith

  Stupid, Wish, Kites

  "Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.

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• My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.

  Carrie Fisher

  Father, Elbows, Spirit

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• Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.

  Charlotte Mason

  Educational, School, Abiding

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “School Education”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating... yet so joyous.

  Ken Green

  Fun, Golf, Games

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• A joyous person abounds with energy and feels buoyant, because he or she is running a higher frequency current of energy through his or her system.

  Gary Zukav

  Running, Energy, Wellness

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Mar 05, 2014

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• She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Air, Wings

  John Milton, James Prendeville (1850). “Milton's Paradise Lost: With Copious Notes, Explanatory and Critical, Partly Selected from Addison, Bentley, Bowle ... [et Al.] and Partly Original”, p.246

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• Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place here and there in the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Thank You, Teacher, Kindness

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