“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”
“Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.”
“The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears.”
Of Parents and Children
Essays (1625)
Context: The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears. They cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other.
“Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy”
“The secret of joy is: To know the world and its evil powers … and still preserve the hope.”
Joy: Share it! p.54.
Joy: Share it! (2017)
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Parents and Children
The Shared Patio (2005)
Context: I pretended that I was pausing before telling him about the secret feeling of joy that I hide in my chest, waiting, waiting, waiting for someone to notice that I rise each morning seemingly with nothing to live for, but I do rise, and it is only because of this secret joy, God's love, in my chest. I looked down from the sky and into his eyes and I said, It wasn't your fault. I excused him for the cover and for everything else. For not yet being a New Man. We fell into silence then; he did not ask me any more questions. I was still happy to sit there beside him, but that is only because I have very, very low expectations of most people, and he had now become Most People.
Desire, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
