Joy
(page 4)
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.
The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
