The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.
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It's a Best companion Whenever we are in JOY or S... DINACE KUMAR C Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our gr... JOE MOORE It is the best sorrow in a Christian soul when his sins are loathsome and offensive unto him--a happ... THOMAS FULLER There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. JEAN PAUL RICHTER I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other. NAGUIB MAHFOUZ The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted... STEVE MARABOLI Injustice in the end produces independence. VOLTAIRE You are sorrow. You exist, even if joy is present. You’re not like them. You’re not like any oth... H.S. CROW Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the ... THADDEUS OF VITOVNICA The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved. R.D. CLYDE I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy SARA TEASDALE It is better to be hungry in joy, than to be filled in sorrow. DENNIS E. ADONIS The more sorrow one encounters, the more joy one can contain PROVERB Meditation on the self is the highest form of true method-less meditation, for it brings self-awaren... ABHIJIT NASKAR The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor... WALTER BENJAMIN The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within. GURU GOBIND SINGH The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that... KAHLIL GIBRAN The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, lig... MOTHER ANGELICA Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Sorrow is the child of too much joy CHINESE PROVERBS Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there ... CASSANDRA CLARE The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy
and sorrow. A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE It looks like the supply is manipulated in a way that produces the highest possible prices BILL LOCKYER One must have sorrow to truly appreciate joy. MEGAN HART Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power... MALCOLM X As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. HELEN KELLER I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow. FANNY BURNEY I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow FANNY BURNEY A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. DAVID HUME A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty DAVID HUME Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”... KAHLIL GIBRAN I used to believe that the sorrow of any parent losing a child is the greatest sorrow anyone can kno... JANE STEARE Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are... J.R.R. TOLKIEN when you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it's only that which has given you... KAHLIL GIBRAN There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, ca... PEARL BUCK It is supposed by some that religion makes people solemn, takes the sunshine out of their life, the ... J.R. MILLER Life is a relentless expulsion from where we come from and an ongoing deportation to alien realms. W... FRANCO SANTORO To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Delight in your weaknesses because they make you stronger Delight in your imperfections because... EVY MICHAELS Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that ... ALBERT SCHWEITZER The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul
Of that waste place with joy
Hidden in sorrow: at fi... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic... ALBERT EINSTEIN Sorrow is brief but joy is endless FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The joy in doing is your greatest reward. LORRIN L. LEE Any lack of joy in the world is the result of disobedience. CAROLYN SHIELDS I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. JONI MITCHELL As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens th... HELEN KELLER As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens th... HELEN KELLER Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hop... RICHARD BAXTER Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) DEYTH BANGER When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given yo... KHALIL GIBRAN When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given yo... KAHLIL GIBRAN Although the story is absurd and at times somewhat humorous, it produces a hateful image of the inst... MARC CARROGGIO Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can f... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can f... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy. GEORGE SAND The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other. ANDRE DUBUS III Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit! FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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TOLKIEN Now is the hour come, Riders of the Mark, sons of Eorl! Foes and fires are before you, and your home... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark. J.R.R. TOLKIEN All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady. J.R.R. TOLKIEN In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure. J.R.R. TOLKIEN The way is shut. Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I don’t know,’ said Frodo. ‘It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard... J.R.R. TOLKIEN He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises! J.R.R. TOLKIEN Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending! J.R.R. TOLKIEN his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Why, Sam,” he said, “to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the story was already writ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew: Of wind I sang, a wind ther... J.R.R. TOLKIEN It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad tha... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte... J.R.R. TOLKIEN There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastr... J.R.R. TOLKIEN If I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a smal... J.R.R. TOLKIEN And Iluvatar spoke to Ulmo, and said: 'Seest thou not how here in this little realm in the Deeps of ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN A divine 'punishment’ is also a divine 'gift’, if accepted, since its object is ultimate blessin... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wi... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief f... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calami... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's b... J.R.R. TOLKIEN No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it. J.R.R. TOLKIEN evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for une... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family o... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism. J.R.R. TOLKIEN For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn’ Ambar-metta! J.R.R. TOLKIEN I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away e... J.R.R. TOLKIEN till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it... J.R.R. TOLKIEN You do not understand' said Pippin. 'You must go - and therefore we must too. Merry and I are coming... J.R.R. TOLKIEN What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pit... J.R.R. TOLKIEN You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to re... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to J.R.R. TOLKIEN We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also re... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. J.R.R. TOLKIEN The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder... J.R.R. TOLKIEN This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN How shall a man judge what to do in such times?' 'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good a... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Do not go to the elves for council for they will say both yes and no. J.R.R. TOLKIEN For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathom... J.R.R. TOLKIEN We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least cor... J.R.R. TOLKIEN ...in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom. J.R.R. TOLKIEN But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN