Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into read more

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
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Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in read more

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

Capacity for joy
Admits temptation.

Capacity for joy
Admits temptation.

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it read more

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.