“Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”
“Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.”
“The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.”
“Beauty is whatever gives joy.”
“Life may not always be beautiful. Sometimes it hurts. But this one thing I can do. Always. I can always choose joy.”
“The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.”