Alan Cohen Quotes, Joy Quotes, Purpose Quotes

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

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Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable.

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Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

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Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!

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Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.

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The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Heart Quotes , Joy Quotes

The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Twilight Quotes , Joy Quotes

We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.

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The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

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Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , World And Love Quotes , Joy Quotes

As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Twilight Quotes , Joy Quotes

Instead of answering your question directly I shall quote from the Indian poet Tagore: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy/ I awoke and saw that life was service/I acted and behold, service was joy.” In fact, through my work I discover life, people, and everything which happens around us.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , People Quotes , Joy Quotes

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

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Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.

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Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund

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O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!

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Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

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Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

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