{"id":492,"date":"2009-06-08T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/06\/fresh-morning-quotes-about-joy.html"},"modified":"2009-06-08T05:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T05:00:47","slug":"fresh-morning-quotes-about-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/06\/fresh-morning-quotes-about-joy.html","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Morning: Quotes About Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was feeling the need to collect these as reminders….<\/p>\n

“Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons.  Joy is your lesson.”
— Alan Cohen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.”
— Melba Colgrove<\/p>\n

“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
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— Mother Teresa <\/p>\n

“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.”
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— Joseph Campbell <\/p>\n

“One joy shatters a hundred griefs.
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— Chinese Proverbs <\/p>\n

“Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.”
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— Helen Keller <\/p>\n

“The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.”
— Eudora Welty<\/p>\n

“Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”
— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy <\/p>\n

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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