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Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being… — Fulton J. Sheen
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods. — Aristotle
You know, that's what I've regretted the most, that joy. Of course, later there were times when I felt happy, but happiness is to joy… — Susanna Tamaro
Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can… — Alan Cohen
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in… — Marcus Aurelius
We often see people every day searching in the wrong places for the things they desire. Too many of our fellow humans try to find… — John Templeton
To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always… — Nathaniel Branden
The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and… — Albert Einstein
Many of us may have watched the waves at sea. They rise, then fall, then rise again, then fall again... and this cycle continues endlessly.… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Tape with LTFS has several advantages over the other external storage devices it would typically be compared to. First, tape has been designed from Day… — George Arthur Crump
The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied… — Shakti Gawain
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external.… — Ramana Maharshi
Revolution is only truly revolution if it is a continuous struggle-not just an external struggle against an enemy, but an inner struggle, fighting and subduing… — Sukarno
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between… — Eugenio Montale
The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly… — Olive Schreiner
A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my… — Olive Schreiner
I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to… — Robert Pozen
There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events… — Brad Carson
I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to… — Jonathan Franzen
Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the… — Joshua Foer

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