I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.― Percy Bysshe Shelley

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That side of our existence whose direction is towards the infinite that seeks not wealth, but freedom and joy.

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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.― Thich Nhat Hanh

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

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Pain, you must be everything for me. Let me find in you all those foreign lands you will not let me visit.

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A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

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Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. — John Lennon

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It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

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