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And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly... -- Kristin Hannah
Joy and sadness come by turns. -- Walker Percy
I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star -- Maud Hart Lovelace
Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them. -- Erich Fromm
The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to understand that there's more to life than being happy. And so that's based on real life observations and things that we've learned as adults. -- Pete Docter
When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child -- Johan Huizinga
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. -- A. N. Wilson
In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. -- Okakura Kakuzo
Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Sadness is pervasive, so focus on joy, focus on happiness. -- Debasish Mridha
God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness. -- Joan Baez
Experiencing deep sadness can, sometimes, heighten your ability to feel joy. -- Marketa Irglova
No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy. -- Dante Alighieri
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. -- Pierre Corneille
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. -- Jim Rohn
Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story. -- Debasish Mridha
Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment. -- Henri Nouwen
The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness. -- John Green
A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have. -- Bob Brookmeyer
I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm. -- Inga Muscio
Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities. -- Rajneesh
There are three types of tears; Tears of joy, Tears of sadness, and Tears of love; a mix of Both. -- AX
All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working. -- Camille Pissarro
Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that. -- Marcel Pagnol
We have a choice at every moment. We can engage in sadness, anger or fear or we can choose joy, love, and peace, -- Jude Bijou
But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal. -- Stephen King
Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm. -- Inga Muscio
To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been. -- Mark Helprin
Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face. -- Francis of Assisi
There are moments where we don't understand the world we live in - where we don't understand our own lives, our sadness or our joy. -- Lisa Lucas
Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness. -- Annie Lennox
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation. -- Andre Gide
The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing. -- Stephen Covey
If sadness comes to you one day with an invitation, tell it you are committed to joy and will be faithful to it your whole life long. -- Pope Francis
I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke. -- Luther Vandross
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If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness. -- Marjorie Garber
Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end. -- Paulo Coelho
a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens. -- Aidan Chambers

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