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“In Lower Pomerania is the Diamond Mountain, which is two miles and a half high, two miles and a half wide, and two miles and a half in depth; every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens it...”
“If you had to lose everything, what would you miss most? It wouldn't be anything gross, like the big house, or the fancy car, assuming you had such things. It wouldn't be your impeccable reputation...”
“We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it.”
“Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.”
“Every joy that life gives must be earned ere it be secured; and how hardly earned, those only know who have wrestled for great prizes. The hearts blood must gem with red beads the brow of the comba...”
“Sometimes she worried that she was too happy. . . And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.”
“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.”
“Quoyle experienced moments in all colors, uttered brilliancies, paid attention to the rich sound of waves counting stones, he laughed and wept, noticed sunsets, heard music in rain, said I do.”
“To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup ...”
“There is no joy greater than the triumph of living.”
“Joy is the ultimate reward in life.”
“Whatever situation you are in, you should find an opportunity to renew your strength in the Lord, so that your problems dont affect your joy, your peace and rest.”
“He was familiar enough with pleasure to know it might become jaded or reluctant; but joy was literally foreign to him, a word he would never easily pronounce, an exhilaration that had some other re...”
“The most inspirational feeling I can come up with is.......The feeling of presence.”
“Embrace the Joy!”
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.”
“Do not worry yourself so much. Take joy in things that are joyful, there is no harm in that.”
“Find comfort in little things and joy in unexpected moments.”
“And in myself, too, many things have perished which, I imagined, would last for ever, and new structures have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have f...”
“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 sa...”
