Joy

"An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy."

"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."

"If you prefer smoke over firethen get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfumeyour mind's clothingwith more sooty knowledge. No, I have something else in mind. Today I hold a flame in my left handand a sword in my right. There will be no damage control today. For God is in a moodto plunder your riches andfling you nakedlyinto such breathtaking povertythat all that will be left of youwill be a tendency to shine. So don't just sit around this flamechoking on your mind. For this is no campfire songto mindlessly mantra yourself to sleep with. Jump now into the spacebetween thoughtsand exit this dreambefore I burn the damn place down."

"No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you."

"Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community."

"It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade."

"I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions."

"Joy is strength."

"On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd"

"For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love."

"The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers."

"Scatter joy!"

"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day."

"Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation."

"And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that (Hell) contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good."

"If she know how strongly he felt, she'd have run out the door. He wasn't used to the possessive, or the savage joy she brought to his heart. It ate at his control, so he turned his attention to the music. He understood music."

"Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien"

"Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy."

"Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy."

"There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice."