JOY, deconstructed.

I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time.
Emily Dickinson

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Moshe Dayan

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love.  For me they are the role model for being alive.
Gilda Radner

Homer: I’ll have the smiley face breakfast special. Uhh, but could you add a bacon nose? Plus bacon hair, bacon mustache, five o’clock shadow made of bacon bits and a bacon body.
Waitress: How about I just shove a pig down your throat?
(Homer looks excited)

Waitress: I was kidding.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.
Albert Schweitzer

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Sir Francis Bacon

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy