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The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.