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Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.

Abdu'l-Baha

Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.
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Darkness Everlasting Grateful Heart Strong Sun
Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals
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Age Ageless Civilization Element Feminine Masculine New
Happiness is a great healer to those who are ill….This has a greater effect than the remedy itself. You must always have this thought of love and affection when you visit the ailing and afflicted.
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Great Happiness Healer Remedy
The body of the human world is sick. Its remedy and healing will be the oneness of the kingdom of humanity. Its life is the Most Great Peace. Its illumination and quickening is love.
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Body Healing Human Oneness Remedy Sick Spiritual World
I want you to be happy…to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you.
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Baha Happy Laugh Laughing Made Order Rejoice You
Woman must especially devote her energies and abilities toward the industrial and agricultural sciences, seeking to assist mankind in that which is most needful.
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Agriculture Devote Energy Mankind Mean Recognition Science Seeking Woman
So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace and goodwill.
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Brotherhood Crown Effort God Goodwill Peace Success Universal
If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.
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Belief Contrary Found Imagination Opinion Religious Science Superstition
The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
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Avail Good Heart Intellect Little Servant
To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.
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Attain Happiness Joy Sacrifice Self State Temporal True Vanish
There is no greater pleasure than to study God’s Word with a spiritual mind.
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God Greater Mind Pleasure Spiritual Study Word
Bahá’í marriage is union and cordial affection between the two parties. They must, however, exercise the utmost care and become acquainted with each other’s character.
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Affection Character Cordial Excercise Exercise Marriage Party Union
We declare that love is the cause of the existence of all phenomena and that the absence of love is the cause of disintegration or non-existence.
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Absence Cause Disintegration Existence Love Phenomena
These he must attain in this world so that after his ascension from the earthly to the heavenly Kingdom he shall find all that is needful in that eternal life ready for him
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Ascension Attain Earthly Kingdom Needful World
What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a grand ideal?
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Agreeing Friendship Good Human Ideal Practice Profit Race Talking Universal
Help along one another’s projects and plans.
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Along Helping Plan Project

Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.

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Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.

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