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.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

The joy late coming late departs.

The joy late coming late departs.

For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.

For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it read more

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is read more

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.