Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living.
—Rachel Marie Martin in The Brave Art of Motherhood
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There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
—Kahlil Gibran
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
—Henry Miller
This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.
—Donald Cargill
Be joyful / though you have considered all the facts.
—Wendell Berry
Am I the person who used to wake in the middle of the night and laugh with the joy of living? Who worried about the existence of God, and danced with young ladies till long after daybreak? Who sang "Auld Lang Syne" and howled with sentiment, and more than once gazed at the full moon through a blur of great, romantic tears?
—Logan Pearsall Smith
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