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Joy is the state of being that allows one to experience feelings of intense, long-lasting happiness and contentment of life. It is closely related to, and often evoked by, well-being, success, or good fortune. Happiness, pleasure, and gratitude are closely related to joy but are not identical to it.

40 QUOTES
"Assimilation is much more joyful than conformity,"
— Marilyn Monroe
"One joy dispels a hundred cares."
— Confucius
"Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls."
— Mother Teresa
"Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune."
— Socrates
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."
— Tom Bodett
"The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it."
— Theodore Roosevelt
"Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic."
— Rosalind Russell
"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."
— Jane Austen
"Joy is not in things, it is in us."
— Benjamin Franklin
"When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things."
— Maya Angelou
"A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy."
— Mother Teresa
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