„The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.“

— Jack Kerouac

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„Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.“
— Paulo Coelho
„Ah, the poverty, the shortness the disappointment of human joy! For in reality car en realite, what is the duration of the supreme moment of love? It is nothing, an instant, a second perhaps. A second of ecstasy, and after that- dust, ashes, nothingness.“
— George Orwell
„I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.“
— Aleister Crowley
„Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.“
— Henry Miller
„Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.“
— Emily Dickinson