We'll dive into the earth together. And if one day a wild flower finds water and springs up from that piece of earth, its stem will have two blooms for sure: one will be you, the other me.

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Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.― Rumi

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Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

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The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.

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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.― Jane Austen

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If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.― Santosh Kalwar

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

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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. ― Alfred Tennyson

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I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.

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You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.

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