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“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.”

Source: The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

“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.”

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Author: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”

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Author:Johan Huizinga

“I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we affect each other. In terms of time, we are not that far from one another. If we were to look back a century, it would seem like a long time; but, if we look at it by decades then it’s only 10 years, and by generations it’s only five.”

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Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.”

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Author:Arthur Koestler

“There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.”

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Author:Jean Paul

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”

“Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.”

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Author:Dionne Warwick

“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.”

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Author:A. N. Wilson

“One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star”

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Author:Maud Hart Lovelace

“In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.”

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Author:William S. Burroughs

“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.”

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Author:Kristin Hannah

“There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.”

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Author:John H. Vincent

“We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.”

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Author:Pierre Corneille

“I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy.”

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Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“Joy and sadness come by turns.”

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Book:The Moviegoer: A Novel

Source: The Moviegoer: A Novel

“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.”

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Author:Erich Fromm