#joy

How wise should we be if, with joyful certainty, we accepted each unfolding of His will as a proof of His faithfulness and love! ↗

— Susannah Spurgeon

#joy #faith

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#pessimism #pessimism

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion. ↗

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

#depair #depression #happiness #illusion #joy

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive. ↗

— Mother Theresa

#love #forgiveness

How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose..! You drove them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place.... O Lord my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#joy #freedom

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. ↗

— George Santayana

#cure #death #enjoy #interval #save

Methought the germ of it was dead in me! Oh, Hester, thou art my better angel! I seem to have flung myself— sick, sin-stained, and sorrow-blackened— down upon these forest leaves, and to have risen up all made anew, and with new powers to glorify Him that hath been merciful! This is already the better life! Why did we not find it sooner? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#joy #love #art

Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games. ↗

— J Allard

#games #more #more people #movies #music

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#audiences #beauty #cinema #experience #film

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#children #enjoy #future #neither #nor