To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. read more

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.

Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of read more

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will read more

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.