“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” – Joseph Campbell
"Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." – Joseph Campbell
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"While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment." – Hasidic Proverb
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"Life is so beautiful, but when you look at it with all your worries, it seems nothing but troublesome. It’s time to be still and watch life unfold right in front of you." – Philip T. M.
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"LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain – grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless." – Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love" – Mother Teresa
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"Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace." – Buddha
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"I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease… observing a spear of summer grass." – Walt Whitman
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"Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty." – Christian Nevell Bovee
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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon." – Francis Bacon Sr.
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"Contentment is not something to be gained by possession. You can not work simply at being content, but must work at making a difference. True contentment is gained by the difference you make in the lives of others." – Jill Hanna
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