“For I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow.”

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”

“That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.”

“You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy, mix them.”

“I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199”

“A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of beliefs and hopes, in God, in Truth, in Love, and in Eternity - an ability to be transported by the beauty of physical objects - a heart to ache or swell- a joy so joyful and a sorrow so sorrowful that oceans could lie between them...”