Robert Browning Quotes About Joy
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Have you found your life distasteful? My life did, and does, smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
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Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride.
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Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.
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The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!
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Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
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For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.
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What joy is better than the news of friends?
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Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.
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How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
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