Shadowlands 1993 - David Hume - William Shakespeare - Mark Twain - Emily Dickinson - John Milton - Richard Wagner - C S Lewis - John Keats - Euripedes - Koran 3:14 - Book of Mormon II Nephi 2:27 - Fulton J Sheen - Isaac Watts - William Wordsworth - Walt Whitman – John Dryden - Madonna - Bertrand Russell - Killing Eve TV -
The most intense joy lies not in the having but in the desiring. Shadowlands ***** 1993 starring Anthony Hopkins & Debra Winger & Edward Hardwicke & Joseph Mazzello & John Wood & Michael Denison et al, director Richard Attenborough, Jack's tutorial with students
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. David Hume
All comfort go with thee,
For none abides with me. My joy is death. William Shakespeare, The First Part of the Contention II Henry VI II iv 88-89, Duchess
For, having such a blessing in his lady,
He finds the joys of heaven here on earth. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice III iv 70-71, Jessica to Lorenzo & Lancelot
But now I lived, and life was death’s annoy;
But now I died, and death was lively joy. William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
Comparison is the death of joy. Mark Twain
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson
Hope elevates, and joy
Brightens his crest. John Milton: Paradise Lost IX:633
But headlong joy is ever on the wing. John Milton, The Passion, 1645
Hence, vain deluding joys,
The brood of folly without father bred. John Milton, Il Penseroso
Joy is not in things, it is in us. Richard Wagner
Joy is never in our power, and pleasure often is. C S Lewis
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness. John Keats, Endymion, 1818
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. Euripedes
Beautified for mankind is love of the joys (that come) from women and offspring; and stored-up heaps of gold and silver, and horses branded (with their mark), and cattle and land. That is comfort of the life of the world. Allah! With Him is a more excellent abode. Koran 3:14
And men are, that they might have joy. Book of Mormon II Nephi 2:27
Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God. Fulton J Sheen, Sheen’s Guide to Contentment, 1967
Joy to the world! the Saviour reigns;
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy. Isaac Watts, Joy to the World! st2
’Tis her privilege,
Through all the years of this our life, to lead
From joy to joy: for she can so inform
The mind that is within us, so impress
With quietness and beauty, and so feed
With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues,
Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men,
Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all
The dreary intercourse of daily life,
Shall e’er prevail against us, or disturb
Our cheerful faith that all which we behold
Is full of blessings. William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey: On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour st4
Each moment and whatever happens thrills me with joy. Walt Whitman, Leave of Grass: Song of Myself
For present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good. John Dryden, 1631-1700, The Hind and the Panther
I’m a tormented person. I have a lot of demons inside me. My pain is as big as my joy. Madonna, interview 1991
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. Bertrand Russell
Eve, all we can do in life is try to find some joy in the little things. Killing Eve s4e7: I Don’t Want to be Free, BBC 2022