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Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
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.
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, read more
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.
Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.
Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.
At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in,
Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.
At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in,
Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.
One joy shatters a hundred griefs
One joy shatters a hundred griefs
