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Geometry of Joy

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
– Leo Tolstoy

Slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

And Joy is Everywhere;
It is in the Earth’s green covering of grass;
In the blue serenity of the Sky;
In the reckless exuberance of Spring;
In the severe abstinence of gray Winter;
In the Living flesh that animates our bodily frame;
In the perfect poise of the Human figure, noble and upright;
In Living;
In the exercise of all our powers;
In the acquisition of Knowledge;
in fighting evils…
Joy is there Everywhere.
– Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941

Benaulim Waden Beach, Goa, India
Santiago, Cuba

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning,
as if supported by the rays of the sun,
a bird settled on the fire escape,
joy in the task of coffee,
joy accompanied me as I walked.
– Anais Nin

India

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life.
– Sr. Mary Rose McGeady

Morondava, Belo Sur Mer, Madagascar

Shared joy is a double joy
-Swedish Proverb

Fletchtingen, Germany

To get the full value of a joy you must have
somebody to divide it with.
– Mark Twain

Afghan Border, Afghanistan

Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
– Emily Dickinson

India
Fiji

Joy is not in things;
it is in us.
– Richard Wagner

Baobab Avenue, Morondava, Madagascar 
Nova Scotia, Canada

Joy is the serenity of heaven.
– John Donne

Burma

We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.
– Joseph Campbell

Baluchistan

My mind to me a kingdom is,
such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss
– Sir Edward Dyer
1543 – 1607

Mongolia
New York, New York, USA

When you do things from your soul,
you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
– Rumi, 1207-1273

Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA
Afghanistan
Cuba

 In time of care and sorrow, keep a
fountain of joy alive in you.
– Dietrich Bonhoffer

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Courage

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
– Nelson Mandela

Tibet

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin,
but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”  
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Helsinki, Finland

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones;
and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
God is awake.” 
– Victor Hugo

Kolkata (Calcutta), India

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
– Honoré de Balzac

Peshawar, Pakistan

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

Kampala, Uganda

 

Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India

 

Kashmir

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
– Mark Twain

Los Angeles, California, USA

 

New York City, New York, USA

“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going.
What you need is to recognize the possibilities and
challenges offered by the present moment, and to
embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”  
– Thomas Merton

Los Angeles, California, USA

“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’
‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Afghanistan

 

Hong Kong

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage,
you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

Lourdes, France

“Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it.”
– William Danforth

Herat, Afghanistan

 

Kabul, Afghanistan

“Courage is not having the strength to go on;
it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

Chitral Valley, Pakistan

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

 

Thailand

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
– Vincent van Gogh

Baluchistan, Pakistan
Kuwait

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
― Anaïs Nin

New York City, New York, USA

 

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always
difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the
same courage that a soldier needs.
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson