Robert Browning Joy Quotations

Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.

Have you found your life distasteful? My life did, and does, smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.

What joy is better than news of friends?

Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.

Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride.