Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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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.
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My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.
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A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.
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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
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When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.
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Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
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Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.
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I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
