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• The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.

  Plato

  Art, Drinking, Voice

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• The only person in all the world who can give you pleasure, or deny it, is yourself. No matter how much we love someone, the decision to experience pleasure, and to make room for it in our lives, is an internal one. If you are resistant, you could be around the most joyous people in the world and be miserable.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Happiness, People, Giving

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• As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha. Life is joyous. Life is Light. Life is happy. You are awake at last.

  Susan Jeffers

  Happiness, Law Of Attraction, Light Life

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• Let go of your ego's need to be right. When you're in the middle of an argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be right or be happy? When you choose the joyous, loving, spiritual mode, your connection to intention is strengthened.

  Wayne Dyer

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Ego

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 23, 2015

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• Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

  Abraham Lincoln

  Laughter, Evergreens, Universal

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln".

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• There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate because all of this means nothing, absolutely nothing. So why not be happy?

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Mean, Buddhism

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• Be still, Be joyous, Celebrate creation, preservation and destruction; For these are the seasons of your life: Of your knowing and being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Knowing

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• Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Real, Singing

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• True giving is a thoroughly joyous thing to do. We experience happiness when we form the intention to give, in the actual act of giving, and in the recollection of the fact that we have given. Generosity is a celebration. When we give something to someone we feel connected to them, and our commitment to the path of peace and awareness deepens.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Commitment, Generosity, Giving

  Sharon Salzberg (1999). “A Heart as Wide as the World”, p.187, Shambhala Publications

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• The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Astonishment, Worship, Conventions

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Real, Mean

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• Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

  Alexander Pope

  Bird, Blooming, Spray

  Alexander Pope, “Spring - The First Pastoral ; Or Damon”

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• For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make; We bring our precious gifts to them, Even for the dear child Jesus' sake.

  Phoebe Cary

  Christmas, Jesus, Children

  Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems”, p.323

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• The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous.

  Louise Erdrich

  Music, Feelings, Sound

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• All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel

  Paul Fussell

  Travel, Leaving, Around The World

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• When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

  Laini Taylor

  Writing, Lakes, Ideas

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• Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.

  Tamera Mowry

  Never Forget, Moments, Forget It

  "Q & A With Actress and New Mom Tamera Mowry Housley". Interview with Latham Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2013.

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• When I found out I was in the top 13 I was freaking out and crying it was such a joyous moment for me.

  Thia Megia

  Cry, Moments, Found

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• Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.

  Jason Alexander

  Baby, Numbers, Despair

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• How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured... No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer...

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Suicide, Weed, Marijuana

  "Marijuana - Assassin of Youth". The American Magazine, Volume 24, p. 18, July 1937.

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• What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy...should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth.

  Margaret Fuller

  Believe, Inspiration, Creativity

  "Woman in the Nineteenth Century". Book by Margaret Fuller, 1845.

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• Oh! how great and glorious a thing it is to have before one the Word of God! With that we may at all times feel joyous and secure; we need never be in want of consolation, for we see before us, in all its brightness, the pure and right way.

  Martin Luther

  Needs, May, Want

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.9

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• Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from these palpable conditions, but when he recovers from wounds he forgets the torments, and when he is well fed he is joyous in the light of day.

  Arthur Lynch

  Pain, Light, Civilization

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• Take your patience pill ...You can be joyous, but you can't be a jackass.

  Michael Nutter

  Pills, Jackasses

  "Million-plus expected for Phillies parade" by Jennifer Lin, Allison Steele and Dwight Ott, www.philly.com. October 30, 2008.

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• I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull. As I advance deeper into the vale of years, I live with constantly increasing gusto and excitement. I am sure it all means something; in the last analysis, I am an optimist because I believe in God. Those who have no faith are quite naturally pessimists and I do not blame them.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Life, Believe, Mean

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