Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to read more

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Sing out my soul, thy songs of joy;
Such as a happy bird will sing,
Beneath a read more

Sing out my soul, thy songs of joy;
Such as a happy bird will sing,
Beneath a Rainbow's lovely arch,
In early spring.

On a March clothesline
.. transparent icicles in a row
in the bright sun
they drip and glow
Marks read more

On a March clothesline
.. transparent icicles in a row
in the bright sun
they drip and glow
Marks of exclamation !!!!!!!!!!
a sentence of joyful exclamation !!!!!!!!

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

But were there ever any
Writhed not at passed joy?

But were there ever any
Writhed not at passed joy?

Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
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Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.