"That was my pride and joy - that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing any of my teeth; then, I ended up losing them in a car accident in New York when I was riding in a taxi. So, I end up losing my teeth, but not in the glamorous fashion I envisioned."
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"The soul's joy lies in doing."
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"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom."
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"What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money."
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"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment."
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"Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy."
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"When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing."
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"Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person."
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"I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life."
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"I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty."
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"When people come and see me, I want them to experience joy. I don't do any sad songs in my show. It's to lift the spirit."
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"The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots."
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"It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life."
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"We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness."
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"There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally."
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"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."
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"If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough."
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"Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy."
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"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."
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"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."
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