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• To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity in this natural world and advocating the methods of reason, science, and democracy.

  Corliss Lamont

  Philosophy, Humanity, Democracy

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• Salvation is in Christ, not the Holy Ghost; our Blessed Lord redeemed us and the Holy Ghost is his messenger to carry the message of redeeming grace into the hearts of men. Thus, the joyous words spoken by the Holy Ghost are in reality the words of Christ. The Spirit is simply the one who delivers the word.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Blessed, Heart, Reality

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• Children are the bearers of life in its simplest and most joyous form. Children are color-blind and still free of all the complications, greed, and hatred that will slowly be instilled in them through life.

  Keith Haring

  Children, Color, Hatred

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.129, Penguin

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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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• [I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected; but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Men, What Matters

  Alfred de Musset, Paul de Musset (1908). “The confession of a child of the century tr. by Kendall Warren”

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• Keeping the commandments is not a burden, but a joyous rehearsal for the eternity.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Rehearsal, Eternity, Burden

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• Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.

  Lord Byron

  Hands, Play, Age

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• Be like a very small joyous child, living gloriously in the ever present now, without a single worry or concern about even the next moment of time.

  Eileen Caddy

  Happiness, Children, Attitude

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• Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.

  Ben H. Winters

  Falling In Love, Book, Writing

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• Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Growing Up, Simple, Growing

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• You cannot judge the value of a life by its quantity. It is by the joy that you are feeling. The more joyful you are, the longer you live. Let yourself relax and breathe and be free and be joyous, and romp.

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Judging, Joy

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• It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of a devil.

  Kedar Joshi

  Life, Devil, Divinity

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• Oh, I wonder if I will ever feel the burst of birth-joy, that knowing that the indescribable, joyous thing that has wooed and wond me has passed through my life and produced one atom of the great reality.

  Emily Carr

  Reality, Knowing, Joy

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.293, D & M Publishers

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• Today is the great day of one of the revelations of this world. The interrelationships of these individual realms were illumined as by a flash of lightning; they burst unexpected, frightening, and joyous out of the darkness. Never were they so strongly tied together and never so sharply divided.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Darkness, Great Day, Together

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• Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the new milch cow carol their roundelay. So does the veteran hen. The common egg of commerce begins to come forth into the market at a price where it can be secured with a step-ladder, and all nature seems tickled.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Song, Spring, Sunshine

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• Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Death, Children

  John Muir (2015). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies”, p.43, e-artnow

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• Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners.

  Rene Crevel

  Flower, Cutting, Broken

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• In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things must meet and mate: A flame to melt--a wind to freeze; Sad patience--joyous energies; Humility--yet pride and scorn; Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity--reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, To wrestle with the angel--Art.

  Herman Melville

  Dream, Art, Hate

  Herman Melville, Robert C. Ryan, Hershel Parker (2009). “Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville”, p.280, Northwestern University Press

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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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• Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.

  Samuel Richardson

  Light, Mind, Overcoming

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.3

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• Glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid?an old sheet of glass will not only take on a royal and purplish tinge but will reveal its true liquid nature by having grown fatter at the bottom and thinner at thetop, and? It isinvisible, solid, in short a joyous and paradoxical thing, asgood a material as any tobuild a life from.

  Peter Carey

  Glasses, Actors, Royal

  1988 Oscar and Lucinda, ch.32,'Prince Rupert's Drops'.

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything sweet and glorious that would never wear this mask, the mask of the dreadful? Whoever does not, sometimes or other, give his full consent, his full and joyous consent to the dreadfulness of life, can never take possession of the unutterable abundance and power of our existence; can only walk on its edge, and one day, when the judgment is given, will have been neither alive nor dead.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sweet, People, Giving

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.223, Vintage

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