4,580 Quotes About Joy






  • Author Alison Croggon
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    It is the pain of being in the world, where so much that is fair passes into death and forgetfulness. But if we are to know joy, we must embrace that pain. You cannot have one without the other."Maerad nodded, her face downcast. Sometimes, it seemed to her, the pain far outweighed the joy.

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  • Author Sondra Charbadze
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    I sit for a long stretch of time, focusing on that pain like an original point, like the early ache of displacement that explodes into the shape of our lives, like the fires which rage around us for the entirety of our days, threatening to swallow us blank. But as I wrap my breath around that original point, as I sink deeper and deeper into the loss, I feel a shiver like presence. I squint and imagine the pit splintering open. A spot of red at the center: Is this joy?

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  • Author Sondra Charbadze
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    Maybe pain is not the original point. Maybe it is freedom i.e. connection i.e. unbroken love i.e. the hum that rivers its way through the broken speech of being, i.e. joy. At birth each child is dunked into this red sea. We emerge from the salt, soaked and rejoicing.

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