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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.

44 QUOTES
"Assimilation is much more joyful than conformity,"
— Marilyn Monroe
"Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic."
— Rosalind Russell
"She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation."
— Jane Austen
"A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy."
— Mother Teresa
"Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls."
— Mother Teresa
"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world."
— Helen Keller
"We create most of our suffering, so it should be logical that we also have the ability to create more joy."
— Dalai Lama
"We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek."
— Dalai Lama
"The joy is in creating, not maintaining."
— Vince Lombardi
"Joy is not in things, it is in us."
— Benjamin Franklin
"When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth."
— Rumi
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
— Helen Keller
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