“The soul is here for its own joy.”
“Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.”
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
“And I realized: souls don't stand alone. What makes a soul a soul is the shared burden and pain, the shared joy: it's the connection between us that carries on.”
“It was in its strangeness and in its familiarity an illustration of someone else's life going on in its own way, steeped in itself, its own business, its own dailyness, its own particular sorrow or joy, all of it more or less predictable”
“Each heart knows its own bitterness and no one else can share its joy.”