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    To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

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They hear a voice in every wind,
And snatch a fearful joy.

They hear a voice in every wind,
And snatch a fearful joy.

by Thomas Gray Found in: Joy Quotes,
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At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in,
Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.

At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in,
Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.

by Alan Seeger Found in: Joy Quotes,
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How fading are the joys we dote upon!
Like apparitions seen and gone;
But those which soonest read more

How fading are the joys we dote upon!
Like apparitions seen and gone;
But those which soonest take their flight
Are the most exquisite and strong;
Like angel's visits short and bright,
Mortality's too weak to bear them long.

by John Norris Of Bemerton Found in: Joy Quotes,
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An infant when it gazes on a light,
A child the moment when it drains the breast,
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An infant when it gazes on a light,
A child the moment when it drains the breast,
A devotee when soars the Host in sight,
An Arab with a stranger for a guest,
A sailor when the prize has struck in fight,
A miser filling his most hoarded chest,
Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping
As they who watch o'er what they love while sleeping.

by George Gordon Noel Byron Found in: Joy Quotes,
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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

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

by Thich Nhat Hanh Found in: Joy Quotes,
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A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign read more

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

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He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

by Kahlil Gibran Found in: Joy Quotes,
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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to read more

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

by Joseph Campbell Found in: Joy Quotes,
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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

by Friedrich Nietzsche Found in: Joy Quotes,
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