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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire? -- Jack Kroll
For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery. -- Antonio Damasio
When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life. -- Suze Orman
Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them. -- Constantin Brancusi
So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be. -- Feist
You increase your joy by increasing the pure joy of others. -- Torkom Saraydarian
I had that feeling of just pure joy and I went out there and put it in my program. -- Tara Lipinski
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
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. -- Buddha
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! -- Louise Bogan
Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them. -- Helen Keller
Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy. -- Mary Lee Settle
Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things. -- Brendan Fehr
The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction. -- Paul Theroux
When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work that well. The joy can be through catharsis. I think that's what I do well, and observation. -- Michael Stipe
Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The entire length and breadth of the world becomes ours, not for us to rule over, but as an expansion of our consciousness. We become reality and vastness. -- Sri Chinmoy
Life has all of these contradictory feelings and contradictory results. People spend their whole lives struggling to get what they think they want, and even if they get it, they find that it's either not what they wanted, or it comes with so many unwanted consequences. We're always shut off from pure joy. -- Harold Ramis
An adult is one who has lost the grace, the freshness, the innocence of the child, who is no longer capable of feeling pure joy, who makes everything complicated, who spreads suffering everywhere, who is afraid of being happy, and who, because it is easier to bear, has gone back to sleep. The wise man is a happy child. -- Arnaud Desjardins
Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers. -- May Sarton
Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it ... I have written because it fulfilled me ... I did it for the buzz. I did it for the pure joy of the thing. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever. -- Stephen King
I am a perfectionist but I know how to live life. When I'm working, it's 100%. When I'm with my friends, I put everything away and enjoy life. When I come home to my kids, it's pure joy and everything's worth it. Every time, I really focus 100 percent on one thing. I've learned how to juggle my life and I feel like now I have the perfect balance. -- Monique Lhuillier
I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary. -- Bono
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. -- Buddha
When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing', that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things. -- Brendan Fehr
A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy. -- Brian Setzer
I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us. -- Natasha Tsakos
Today I will run for pure, absolute joy! -- Lopez Lomong
Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge. -- Chin-Ning Chu
Love gives us the perfect, pure, and sweetest joy of life. -- Debasish Mridha
Your life is pure joy, pure ecstasy, when you live in humility. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. -- Leo Tolstoy
Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
I have a passion for fast cars. To drive them means pure joy to me. -- Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude. -- Simone Weil
Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy. -- Rachel Carson
At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy. -- M. J. Ryan
Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices. -- David Mitchell
You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends. -- Pascal Bruckner
You are purer than the pure. Never manifold, you are individual Consciousness. Unborn, unchanging, all-pervasive You are a mountain of joy. -- Swami Muktananda
Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance your own pure heart. Keep quiet. -- Mooji
A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film. -- John Lasseter
Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy.... -- William Butler Yeats
Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains. -- Aleister Crowley
I give you this to take with you:Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you canbegin again, with pure joy in the uprooting. -- Judith Minty
Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty. -- Pope Benedict XVI
One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom -- Swami Vivekananda
Our original nature is...void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself. -- Huangbo Xiyun
Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts. -- James Gates Percival
Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things. -- Corrie Ten Boom
A joyful life isn't about others; it's about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy. -- Martha Beck

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