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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. read more
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Capacity for joy
Admits temptation.
Capacity for joy
Admits temptation.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow
This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty read more
This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. . -George Bernard Shaw.
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.
Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay!
He chortled in his joy.
Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay!
He chortled in his joy.
