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    To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

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In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

by Adlai Stevenson Found in: Risk Quotes,
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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

by Eudora Welty Found in: Joy Quotes,
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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

by Friedrich Nietzsche Found in: Joy Quotes,
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My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.

My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Joy Quotes,
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How fading are the joys we dote upon!
Like apparitions seen and gone;
But those which soonest read more

How fading are the joys we dote upon!
Like apparitions seen and gone;
But those which soonest take their flight
Are the most exquisite and strong;
Like angel's visits short and bright,
Mortality's too weak to bear them long.

by John Norris Of Bemerton Found in: Joy Quotes,
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Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

by Mahatma Gandhi Found in: Joy Quotes,
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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will read more

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Joy Quotes,
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Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If read more

Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it

by Persian Proverb Found in: Risk Quotes,
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Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but read more

Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.

by Hung Tzu-cheng Found in: Joy Quotes,
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