“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
Variant: Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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American mythologist, writer and lecturer 1904–1987Related quotes
“From every joy and pain a hope leaps out eternally to escape this pain and to widen joy.”
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: From every joy and pain a hope leaps out eternally to escape this pain and to widen joy.
And again the ascent begins — which is pain — and joy is reborn and new hope springs up once more. The circle never closes. It is not a circle, but a spiral which ascends eternally, ever widening, enfolding and unfolding the triune struggle.
“Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes joy.”
No. 8.
Maxims and Moral Sentences
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The Visitor (2002)
Context: People allow themselves to believe an event if it's called a miracle while disdaining the same event if it's called magic. Or vice versa. Life arises naturally; where life is, death is, joy is, pain is. Where joy and pain are, ecstasy and horror are, all part of the pattern. They occur as night and day occur on a whirling planet. They are not individually willed into being and shot at persons like arrows. Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts…
“My joy is as painful as my pain.”
Ibid., p. 100
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A minha alegria é tão dolorosa como a minha dor.
Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”