“When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.” MenWorldWritingChildrenHas BeensArtRealWholeJoyArtistUniverseBornReligiousLove IsSubjectsPaintingBirthArt IsWhole WorldImpulseNon Religious Author:Madeleine L'Engle
“This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.” FormJoySongUniverseSubjectsShapesPressureSubstanceUnder PressureUpheavalReversal Author:Doris Lessing
“Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor the soldier, of whom it makes a coward, nor the woman whose beauty and sensibility it mars, nor the mother, who has a son to lose, nor the rulers of men, who have no surer pledge of the fidelity of their subjects than religion.” PeopleMenJoyMotherLosesClassAtheismSubjectsSonBenefitsSoldierCowardRulersUnfortunateSensibilityMarsProsperousPledgeFidelityInsipid Author:François-René de Chateaubriand
“Deceiving world, that with alluring toysHast made my life the subject of thy scorn,And scornest now to lend thy fading joys,T'outlength my life, whom friends have left forlorn;How well are they that die ere they be born,And never see thy sleights, which few men shunTill unawares they helpless are undone!” MenWorldWellsMadeJoyDiesLeftBornSubjectsDeceivingHelplessScornUndoneFadingForlornAlluring Book:The poetry of Robert Greene Source: The poetry of Robert Greene
“To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.” MayJoySubjectsSourceThousandSpringAccidentsAliensInevitableMinistersDependentAfflictionAmusementRecreationInterruptions Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects
“Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.” IfsWorldMadeSoulMatterEnoughWholeJoyGriefVirtueSubjectsMastersGloryCleanWhole WorldIrrationalCommunionGoverningMake Happy Author:Sallust
“If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions - freedom, growth and joy - will come quickly and easily into alignment. See your "career" as one of creating a joyful life experience. You are not a creator of things or a regurgitator of what someone else has created or a gatherer of stuff. You are a creator, and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. That is your mission. That is your quest. That is why you are here.” IfsFeelsJoyStuffGrowthCareersCreativitySubjectsCreationCreatingIntentionCreatorMissionsLife ExperienceQuestsJoyfulDominantAlignmentJoyful LifeTriads Author:Esther Hicks