For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.
If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.
I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
I have a great deal of joy in my life, and I'm very fortunate. That combination makes you aware of just how wonderful life can be on the one hand and how dreadful it can be for people on the other. You can't be happy in isolation.
I've always said you have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy.
Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
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