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• The best thing that you can do to this world is to be joyous. Being joyful, is the greatest offering you can make to the world.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Offering, Humanity

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• Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

  Martin Luther

  Wagers, Unseen, Goodness

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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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• That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories of exaggerated mischief and the altruism of sharing pornography, was actually a farcical fellowship. Because what a man really wanted was to be bigger than his friends.

  Manu Joseph

  Memories, Reality, Men

  Manu Joseph (2011). “Serious Men”, p.10, HarperCollins Publishers

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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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• 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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• White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.

  Tom Robbins

  Fear, Gun, Cities

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.360, Bantam

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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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• Any time I get to go home is a joyous occasion.

  David Nail

  Home, Occasions

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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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• 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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• 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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• Right joyous are we to behold your face, Most worthy brother England; fairly met!

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Faces, England

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1818, BookCaps Study Guides

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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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• 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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• Today is a new day. Today is a day for you to begin creating a joyous, fulfilling life.

  Louise Hay

  Creating, New Day, Today

  Louise Hay (2011). “21 Days to Master Affirmations”, p.10, Hay House, Inc

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• Sadness, seriousness are parts of a psychologically sick man - they need causes. So when you are feeling happy, don't start asking, "Why am I happy?" When you are feeling sad ask why you are sad. But strangely, it has become conventional to our minds that when we are sad we accept it as if it is our nature. And when we are joyous even we are surprised; deep inside we even start worrying: "What is happening to me?"

  Rajneesh

  Sadness, Men, Asking Why

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• I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Body, Want, Moments

  "When Sam Taylor-Wood met Yoko Ono". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.

  Helen Keller

  Thanksgiving, Song, Flower

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

  Henry Miller

  World, Ghost, Madmen

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

  Sherman Alexie

  Hard Work, Finishing, Tasks

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• The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.

  Steven Pressfield

  Love, Dream, Work

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.53, Black Irish Books

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• These aren't joyous times when we have war in Iraq. These are challenging times, and they're difficult times, and they're straining the psyche of our country. I understand that.

  George W. Bush

  Country, War, Challenges

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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