Surprised by Joy

Spiritual joy is a serenity of temper in the midst of the changes of life, such as a mountain has when a storm breaks over it.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. The very thing that gives you pleasure today will give you pain tomorrow, or it will leave you, so its absence will give you pain.

Joy. There is no depression in love, for joy is the natural outcome of love.