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"I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words. I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience."
"Always behold not only your own smile but also the smile of someone else's joy"
"We are superior to the joy we experience."
"Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy."
"Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew not what ailed us, to recognize any generosity in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy."
"Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing."
"Sometimes, when we're feeling challenged in life, we feel a pull to isolate, and for me part of the joy of being a wife, a mother, and in a cast of friends is allowing myself to be in spaces of love. So being open to that love."
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy."
"I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless."
"Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged."
"Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve."
"Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned."
"Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned."
"Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity."
"When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun. The germs which perished to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day."
"Sorrow is brief but joy is endless"
"Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber."
"The live concerts are still one of the two greatest joys of my life."
"The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large."
"On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined."
