Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).

~ Wendy Beckett

Wendy Beckett Happiness Joy

In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so - that it is fundamentally alien to our being, this even though we all suffer, and frequently. Yet we reject suffering as a basic human truth, while greeting joy as integral to our very substance.

~ Wendy Beckett

Wendy Beckett Grief Joy Suffering

This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.

~ Wendy Beckett

Wendy Beckett Grief Hope Joy