Joy

"Should I tell her of the moments of joy, the intense pleasure of holding the hand of the one you love and wishing that time would stand still?"

"It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you will always see the face you loved and won. And a woman who really loves a man does not see that he grows old; he is not decrepit to her; he does not tremble; he is not old; she always sees the same gallant gentleman who won her hand and heart. I like to think of it in that way; I like to think that love is eternal. And to love in that way and then go down the hill of life together, and as you go down, hear, perhaps, the laughter of grandchildren, while the birds of joy and love sing once more in the leafless branches of the tree of age."

"To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow."

"Without pain, how would we know what true joy feels like?"

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potters oven?And is not the lute that soothes your spirits the very wood that was hollowed with knives?"

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain."

"Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;"

"Can we just be grateful for beauty & joy, fascination & tolerance, humour & love, nature & grace, and simply release any anger and pains?"

"May you find the strength to courageously live through any situation."

"Love opens us. Pain deepens us. Courage strengthens us. Joy enlightens us. Beauty renews us."

"I shall overcome any obscuration."

"Don't allow unforgiveness to make you unhappy."

"May your heart be joyful to overcome painful situation."

"What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God."

"Forgive and be happy."

"Spread love, joy and compassion because the world needs it, for hatred and pain need no escort; they know how to survive without it."

"If you focus on bitterness, you destroy your life."

"until it is taken out of your mind, it is never lost and it is never gone"

"Birthing is never easy or without pain, be it a universe, a child, or a fresh start in life. Contraction precedes expansion. Darkness comes before dawn. Joy follows pain. This is the way of things."

"When you think this pain is all you deserve, you are right. You are the only one that can decide how long you will walk in hell."