The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. Eudora Welty I have heard it said that joy is a decision. That makes sense to me in the way we find what we look for. Taking an excursion can mean m...

My hunch is that joy is an ember for or precursor to wild and unpredictable and transgressive and unboundaried solidarity. ... Though attending to what we hate is often all the rage (and it happens to be very big business) noticing what we love in co...

“Joy is an act of defiance,’ said the Khan. ‘With joy, we win, even if we lose. To have lived well is a victory all its own, for we all die. Death is unimportant to the laughing warrior. A poet makes tragedy glorious. That is why.”  ― ...

The thing no one ever tells you about joy is that it has very little real pleasure in it. — Zadie Smith Joy is complicated. It is easy to miss amid scurrying, forget amid noise, and neglect amid fear. It can be invisible in the heaviness of cru...