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Joyfulness is the characteristic of feeling and expressing deep happiness and enthusiasm. As an attitude of the spirit, it can permeate even the most sorrowful situation. When we open ourselves to joy, we let in light and laughter, strength and grace.


Joy celebrates beauty and goodness, inviting us to dance without demanding or expecting anything. Sometimes joy is quiet and hidden, and sometimes it burts out in song and movement or in the act of creation.


Joy is a cup overflowing that generously shares itself with all who are near. When we are joyful, we are exposed but unafraid, unselfconsciously offering the gifts of energy, hope, and inspiration.

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Praise is the attitude of the highest gratitude.

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Integrated Gospel Perceptions http://
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

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Earth is crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God.

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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

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High Tide in Tucson
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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

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"Beautiful Boy"
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We are all participants in the marvelous.

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www.bigjoy.org
James Broughton
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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

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Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. -

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Ron Sims Daily Wisdom
Henry Miller
Viewed on December 7, 2009
Contribution #3661


Don't ever let your mind keep you from having a good time.

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Gratitude Cafe Tour 2009
Contribution #3660


All is play. God is just playing everywhere. All are bubbles-small bubbles going down and coming up to the surface.


Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

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For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

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The best things in life are ridiculous.

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If you have love, you can live on bread crumbs. Without love, caviar will poison you.

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Words of Our Master
by MARKANDU SWAMI,
 A. CHELLATHURAI,
 SANDASWAMI,
 M. SRI KHANTA
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We make very little progress when we strive to conquer baser instincts in a good mood. However, vast strides are possible when we are miserable and work with ourselves to replace our misery with joy and understanding.

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Gurudeva Weekly Calendar
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It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.

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Gurudeva Weekly Calendar
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

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Identify what it is that makes you ecstatically happy, then steal it. Not the object, but the happiness. No one is the poorer when you have learned to call forth the happiness that resides within you.

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Daily Inspiration
Josh Mitteldorf
"Steal this Joy!; May 3, 2009"
http://daily-inspiration.org
Viewed on June 11, 2009
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Joy and woe are woven fine. ~Auguries of Innocence~

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Auguries of Innocence
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I am every age I've ever been.

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Quoted in Lois's obituary after her death on 2/15/09
http://www.twincities.com
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I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

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Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises.

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Starbucks - The Way I See It #31
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We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.

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Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States. We think here that a man must be great, that he must be notorious; that he must be extremely wealthy, or that his name must be upon the putrid lips of rumor. It is all a mistake. It is not necessary to be rich or to be great, or to be powerful, to be happy. The happy man is the successful man.
Happiness is the legal tender of the soul.
Joy is wealth.

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What's God Got to Do With It?
by Tim Page
Page 52 ("The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child", 1877)
Published by Steerforth Press , Hanover, NH , 2005
http://www.amazon.com/Whats-God-Got-Ingersoll-Separation/dp/1586420968/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224970457&sr=8-1
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There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.

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What's God Got To Do With It
by Tim Page
Page 49 ("The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child" 1877)
Published by Steerforth , Hanover, NH , 2005
http://www.amazon.com/Whats-God-Got-Ingersoll-Separation/dp/1586420968/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224970457&sr=8-1
Contribution #2253


Our calling is where our deepest gladness and the world's hunger meet.

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Virtues Reflection Cards
http://www.virtuesproject.com
Contribution #2223


Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.

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Paris Talks
Page 109
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While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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What's God Got to Do with It?
by Tim Page
Published by Steerforth Press , Hanover, New Hampshire , 2005
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Contribution #2073


There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

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...he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always served beauty, and beauty is delight in form, and form is the key to organizing life, since no living thing can exist without it, so that every work of art, including tragedy, expresses the joy of existence.

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Dr. Zhivago
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/fate/fate.html
Contribution #1778


We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

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"Dead Poets Society"
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/dp-society/dp-society.html
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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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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications , Temple City, CA , 2003
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Kindness
is giving others happiness.
Compassion
is removing others' bitterness.
Joy
is freeing others from suffering.

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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications , Temple City, CA , 2003
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Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

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I slept and dreamed that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted, and behold, service was joy.

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Rabindranath Tagore, lived in bengali: poet, novelist, musicain, playwright
http://wiki.seedsofcompassion.org
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My heart is singing this morning.  A miracle has happened!  The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

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For My Teacher
by Compiled by Suzanne Siegel Zenkel
Published by Peter Pauper Press, Inc , White Plains, NY , 1994
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Contribution #974


Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

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Marvin J. Ashton
http://www.answers.com/topic/marvin-j-ashton
Viewed on April 17, 2008
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Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing.

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George Perera
Viewed on March 1, 2008
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

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Frederick Buechner
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/compassion_is_sometimes_the_fatal_capacity_for/206388.html
Viewed on June 20, 2008
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

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If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

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Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy.

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