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"Every joy that some experience is paid for by the sorrow of others."
"Howling is the noise of hell, singing the voice of heaven; sadness the damp of hell, rejoicing the serenity of heaven. And he that hath not this joy here, lacks one of the best pieces of his evidence for the joys of heaven; and hath neglected or refused that earnest, by which God uses to bind his bargain, that true joy in this world shall flow into the joy of heaven, as a river flows into the sea; this joy shall not be put out in death, and a new joy kindled in me in heaven; but as my soul, as soon as it is out of my body, is in heaven, and does not stay for the possession of heaven, nor for the fruition of the sight of God, till it be ascended through air, and lire, and moon, and sun, and planets and firmament, to that place which we conceive to be heaven, but without the thousandth part of a minute's stop, as soon as it issues, is in a glorious light, which is heaven... As my soul shall not go towards heaven, but go by heaven to heaven, to the heaven of heavens, so the true joy of a good soul in this world is the very joy of heaven"
"There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice."
"An infant when it gazes on a light, A child the moment when it drains the breast, A devotee when soars the Host in sight, An Arab with a stranger for a guest, A sailor when the prize has struck in fight, A miser filling his most hoarded chest, Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping As they who watch o'er what they love while sleeping."
"no te bebas de un sorbo la alegrÃa."
"Capacity for joy Admits temptation."
"There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness."
"As the skillful artist, in making a good portrait, finds it essentially necessary to use the dark and bright colors alternately, so the Divine Artist dips His pencil, by turns, in Marah and Elim. In Marah first, and the background is laid in darkness black as midnight; and then in Elim, and the blackness is relieved with the colors of the rainbow."
"The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the men of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these are the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ. Indeed, nothing genuinely human fails to raise an echo in their hearts. For theirs is a community composed of men. United in Christ, they are led by the Holy Spirit in their journey to the Kingdom of their Father and they have welcomed the news of salvation which is meant for every man."
"Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joys inclined, Lawless, winged, and unconfined, And breaks all chains from every mind."
"Joys Are bubble-like—what makes them bursts them too."
"He who binds to himself a joy Does the wingèd life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise."
"Joy to the world All the boys and girls, now, Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea Joy to you and me."
"And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep."
"Man was made for joy and woe, And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go."
"Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne."
"O, der alles vergrössernden Eifersucht."
"Happy happy, joy joy happy happy, joy joy"
"Sunny days wouldn't be special, if it wasn't for rain. Joy wouldn't feel so good, if it wasn't for pain."
"After all, joy and sorrow are often arbitrary, largely states of mind; nowhere is it written that joy must accompany victory and sorrow defeat."
"Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own."
"O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my fresh cheek to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!"
"The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife."
"Since jealousy is unfortunately a very common emotion in everyday experience and is felt frequently by a great majority of people, its use in stories and plays has been somewhat overdone. Certain schools of fiction portray jealousy as a proof of true love. This mistaken theory maintains that a lover can always tell when a woman begins to fall in love with him by observing when she begins to be jealous of other women. There is just enough truth in the theory to keep it alive long after psychology should have disposed of it."
"Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phœbus did avow He would be coy, and would not love at all; Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought, Than love united to a jealous thought."
"But through the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse, 'Tis then delightful misery no more, But agony unmix'd, incessant gall, Corroding every thought, and blasting all Love's paradise."
"But yesterday my worries got the best of me Well, yesterday I'm sorry that I didn't see I think you'll go, you know, eventually It's my jealousy"
"Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent."
"Quark: "...it's good to want things" Odo: "Even things you can't have?" Quark: "Especially things I can't have""
"But jealous souls will not be answer'd so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they are jealous."
"Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ."
"If I shall be condemn'd Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you, 'Tis rigour, and not law."
"Though I perchance am vicious in my guess, As, I confess, it is my nature's plague To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy Shapes faults that are not."
"O, beware, my lord of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss, Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger; But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er, Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!"
"Entire affection hateth nicer hands."
"Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point."
"The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement."
"Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion into certainty."
"How often, for example, a young man desires affection from someone who cannot give it to him, who has it not to give! From such a desire as that comes often a great deal of sadness, jealousy and much other ill-feeling. You will say that such a desire is natural; undoubtedly it is, and affection which is returned is a great source of happiness. Yet if it cannot be returned, a man should have the strength to accept the situation, and not allow sorrow to be caused by the unsatisfied desire."
"It doesn't matter, what they say. In the jealous games people play, our lips are sealed."
"In jealousy there is more self-love than love."
"Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell."
"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."
"The jealous man is not able, nor does he have the will, to imagine the opposite of what he fears, indeed he cannot feel joy except in the magnification of his own sorrow, and by suffering through the magnified enjoyment from which he knows he is banned. The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell -- in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond."
"Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart."
"Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of our enemies; its wages to be sure of it."
"Jealousy: Let it go; results could be tragic."
"So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt!"
"No true love there can be without Its dread penalty—jealousy."
"Some give out of faith others out of friendship. Do not envy others for the gifts they receive, or you will have no peace of mind by day or by night. Those who have destroyed the roots of jealousy have peace of mind always."