Joy
(page 4)
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.
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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.
Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.
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.