“Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it.” HeartWholeLightPainSpiritualJoyTurnsFunQualityDespairConcernedOvercomingDefeatCombinationHaving FunElectricVitalityTurn-onInseparableElectric Light Book:The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ... Source: The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...
“But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.” HeartLongLawNaturalVicesManifestationFrankVitalityConstraintsSailorSeemingNatural LawExuberanceFiddlers Book:Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales Source: Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales