In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. - W.H. Auden
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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it. - James Brown
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Joy is not in things; it is in us. - Richard Wagner
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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. - C. S. Lewis
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
- Pearl S. Buck
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
- Pearl S. Buck
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
- Thomas Aquinas
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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. - Fyodor Dostoevsky