Joy - Quotes
All things that live, endure for the same span;
The century-old tree, and the one-day beetle,
Grow conscious, joy and love, and pass away
When they have reached their own appointed aims.
Time does not move. `Tis only we who change.
A hundred years are but one brief day.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Joy?
A little pearl of the ocean.
Perhaps
By the time I fish it up
I may break it.
If you can sing of nothing better
than your own joy or broken heart,
the world can do without your singing:
keep out, where you can have no part!
Keep my love safe; take my love safe to where he goes, give him joy in who he sees, and make him a cause of joy in those who see him.
We`re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.