Alan Cohen Quotes, Sacrifice 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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The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance

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Tags : Akhenaton Quotes , Distance Quotes , Joy Quotes

Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.

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Tags : A. J. Muste Quotes , Joy Quotes , Growth Quotes

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Giving Quotes , Joy Quotes

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Joy Quotes , Suffering Quotes

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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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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My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Names Quotes , Joy Quotes

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Joy Quotes , Sorrow Quotes

Be a source of joy. And let haters complain about the world.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Joy Quotes

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Giving Quotes , Joy Quotes

Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say. ~ Edgar Allen Poe

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You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Joy Quotes , Looks Quotes

There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.

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And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

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A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

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How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Joy Quotes

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

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Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Joy Quotes , Grandfather Quotes