The Buddha has said that there is a greater joy in overcoming a desire than in satisfying it.
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The worlds through which they are passing now is a wonder world that imitates Heaven as a shadow.
It is the fact that people who are grateful and cheerful and ready to go step by step,... do actually march faster and more surely than those who are impatient and in haste and at each step despair.