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“There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.”

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“What she liked was simply life. "That's what i did it for," she said, speaking aloud to life... Could any man understand what she meant, either, about life? …But to go deeper, beneath what people said, and these judgments, how superficial, how fragmentary, they are. In her own mind now, what did it mean to her, this thing she called life? It was an offering…it was her gift.”

Life Joy

Book:Mrs. Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“Adults wear themselves out pointlessly searching for a joy they never find. But in children, it bursts out of every pore.”

Children Joy

Book:La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz

Source: La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz

“You know we talked about where people go when they die. I just believe you go someplace and I seen her layin there and I thought maybe she wouldn't go to heaven because, you know, I thought she wouldn't and I thought about God forgivin people and I thought about if I could ask God to forgive me for killin that son of a bitch because you and me both know I ain't sorry for it and I reckon this sounds ignorant but I didn't want to be forgiven if she wasn't. I didn't want to do or be nothin that she wasn't like going to heaven or anything like that.”

God Death Heaven Forgiveness Cities Of The Pain

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“...for without contrasts, how does one appreciate the different forms that joy can take?”

Joy Contrasts

Book:How Long 'til Black Future Month?

Source: How Long 'til Black Future Month?

“The third element of love is mudita, joy. True love always brings joy to ourselves and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.”

Love Joy Mutuality

Book:El verdadero amor

Source: El verdadero amor

“Joy is probably the most vulnerable emotion we experience in our lives.”

Joy Vulnerability

Book:Braving the Wilderness

Source: Braving the Wilderness

“By taking up space, standing up for ourselves, and reassessing a future with crystal-clear perspectives, we gain clarity and make room for self-care, well-being, and joy. (“The Infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)”

Joy Meditation Clarity Self Care Wellbeing Stand Up For Yourself Infinite Wisdom Crystal Clear Reassess Take Up Space

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Today, I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between; I am not interested in all those films that do not pulse.”

Joy Cinema Agony

Book:The Films in My Life

Source: The Films in My Life

“And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: listening to music, riding my bicycle, I catch myself feeling, in a way that’s as old as I am but suddenly seems unfamiliar, light. I have felt so heavy for so long. At first I felt odd- as if I shouldn’t be feeling this lightness, that familiar little catch of pleasure in the heart which is inexplicable, though a lovely passage of notes or the splendidly turned petal of a tulip has triggered it. It’s my buoyancy, part of what keeps me alive: happy, suddenly with the concomitant experience of a sonata and the motion of the shadows of leaves. I have the desire to be filled with sunlight, to soak my skin in as much of it as I can drink up, after the long interior darkness of this past season, the indoor vigil, in this harshest and darkest of winters, outside and in.”

Joy Grief Spring Winter Grieving Sunshine Spring Awakening

Book:Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

Source: Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

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