Mark Twain Quotes About Joy
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what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.
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To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.
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Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
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Comparison is the death of joy.
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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
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On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.
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Let your joy be unconfined!
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[Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears rob you of the joys of life or you too will say...] There has been much tragedy in my life; [and] at least half of it actually happened.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
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The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.
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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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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
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Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.
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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.
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A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.
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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
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The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.
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On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.
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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.
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