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Is it that they fear the pain of death, or could it be they fear the joy of life?
TOAD THE WET SPROCKET, Pray Your Gods
- He who has once been happy is for aye
- Out of destruction's reach. His fortune then
- Holds nothing secret; and Eternity,
- Which is a mystery to other men,
- Has like a woman given him its joy.
WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT, With Esther
- Joy may be a miser,
- But Sorrow’s purse is free.
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD, Persian Song
- If I dream I have you, I have you,
- For, all our joys are but fantastical.
- Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day
- And dances by false glare at night;
- But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves
- To spread its wings in Nature's light.
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES, Joy and Pleasure
- Joy's recollection is no longer joy,
- While Sorrow's memory is a sorrow still.
LORD BYRON, Marino Faliero
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
ECKHART TOLLE, The Power of Now
People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don't want to suffer, they won't be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by.
GENEEN ROTH, Good Housekeeping, Dec. 2008
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it with.
MARK TWAIN, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
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