Adam Gopnik Quotes, Writing Quotes, Joy Quotes

Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.

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During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Heart Quotes , Joy Quotes

To attain to the human form must always be a source of joy. And then to undergo continuous transitions, with only the infinite to look forward to: what incomparable bliss is that!

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Joy and woe are woven fine.

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Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead.

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He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.

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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

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Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Joy Quotes , Suffering Quotes

And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Dream Quotes , Joy Quotes

Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.

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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

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Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

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But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.

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JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

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

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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

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Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.

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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.

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Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

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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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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Heart Quotes , Joy Quotes