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What is pure joy? Is it that fleeting feeling of happiness? Or is it the deep satisfaction that comes with knowing God? In Pilgrims Progress, Josh Bunyan follows the pilgrimage of Christian. When Christian commences his pilgrimage to the Celestial City, a heavy burden lies on his back and it is not until he runs to the cross that his burden dissolves. Many characters led Christian on his way, but many were a determent to him. In Christian’s story, my character is Joy. Joy has a miraculous meaning, a soothing spirit, and a passionate purpose. Being happy is nothing compared to being joyful.

In sum, life is supposed to be about more than happiness. We are supposed to do something important, adhere to some ethic, and serve a greater good. We live for a goal, a principle, or a destiny—not just for pleasure.1

God is happy and generous when he is kind like in Bradstreet’s poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband”. Once her and her husband have passed on she hoped that “The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray”(Bradstreet 10). She wanted God to give them a place in heaven in which they could celebrate their love forever. With God being so kind he was also generous to some. Anne Bradstreet hoped that he would bestow this kindness upon her when she

We are part of the Dreaming. We have been in the Dreaming for a long time before we

• Boyle believes that deep down, everyone longs to love God and feel God’s love

There is but one thing that no one can ever have enough of. Admittedly, there are various substitutions that can suffice as satisfactory for one’s happiness. Yet, there is an exception that creeps and remains ubiquitously unseen and incessantly yearned for. As Zora Neale Hurston, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, puts it, there are “ships at a distance [that] have every man’s wish on board.” Indeed, these desires ride a boat which sails on, perhaps, the ocean of time. There are those who are fortunate and whose ships “come in with the tide,” relying on the chance that their aspirations come in miraculously from the vast ocean or window of opportunity. There are also those who are unfortunate and whose ships “sail forever on the

Looks can be a very determining factor, and sometimes people's appearances can affect what she or he can or can not do in society and what they do to fit into it. The play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, is a good example of how this idea is put into play. The main character, Cyrano de Bergerac, is portrayed as a hideous person, because of the size of his nose. As someone who does not fit with in society, yet he changes his morals, attitude, and personality to make up for his grotesque appearance. As the play progresses from act to act we the readers realize that Cyrano is this magnificent character. We begin to understand how his ugliness has shaped his life, how the deformity on his face has forced him to learn new skills and to

In this allegorical play Lawrence and Lee’s use of symbolic characters challenges the status quo and inspires American intellectual growth.

Although the play Cyrano de Bergerac may have many themes, I believe that the most prevalent is “Don’t judge a book by its cover”. I believe this because throughout the play Cyrano was afraid to tell Roxane how he felt about her because of the way he looked. One example of this is in Act II when he is about to tell her and she starts describing him, until she gets to the word “Handsome”. This immediately tells him that she has no affection towards him.

The physical aspect of pain can be healed over time, whereas the mental can’t. Mental pain require professional help in order to help cope, and in some cases mental injuries can last a lifetime. This type of pain is usually associated with emotional distress. Despite all this, pain is a survival skill that our ancestors devolved in response to the dangers they endured millions of years ago. This skill is called fight-or-flight

not truly live until they find pure, unabashed happiness, no matter the risks. Before I read “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer just mere months ago, I admittedly had a far dissimilar opinion on the mooth’s philosophy. But, as I read through the book, I began to have a change of mind. Throughout my fourteen years on this Earth,  I’ve known and encountered a vast majority of people that have made a routine of life, myself included. We all do the same things over and over again, day after day, hoping that life will walk up to us, take our hands, and lead us straight toward happiness. This rarely, if ever occurs. In reality, we’re left waiting out our lives, wishing and dreaming about something that might present meaning; something that could provide contentment in our lives. We all have a tendency to put off searching for life’s happiness, whether or not we actually recognize it depends on our

The pursuit of happiness is an endless journey that we all experience during our lifetime. This search for satisfaction in life is made up of actions and choices that we make to benefit our lives for the better, even if done subconsciously. Many people try to end this lifelong journey short by reaching a practically unachievable “true happiness”, and some even get so caught up in trying to reach this ultimate fulfillment in life, that they begin to forget about the great things currently in their lives because they spend so much time and energy focusing on what they want rather than what they have. Life is about enjoying living in the moment, because it only happens once.

When you don 't think that you 're capable of falling in love, when you actually do, it is

Throughout the play Cyrano de Bergerac written by Edmond Rostand, the audience comes to hold dearly the heart of the protagonist, Cyrano a strong man with a rather gargantuan nose. It is through discussions and insults concerning his physical attributes that the audience discovers he is in fact in love with the woman he has held close to his heart for many friendly years, his cousin Roxane. Completely unbeknownst to Roxane, Cyrano’s love and admiration for her is not simply on a relative scale as she perceives it to be, but rather the much more drastic level of physical, emotional, and intellectual attraction. As the play is centered on the life of Cyrano, the audience comes to understand the sincerity of the love he feels and devotion he has for his relative and ultimately concludes that he is in fact worthy of the affection from the woman he truly adores. However, is Roxane truly worthy of such a man’s adulation, when in fact her unattainability ever steadily nibbles at Cyrano’s heart making him ultimately feel undeserving of her?

It is human nature to want and desire certain things out of life. For the most part, people want the same things. No one is the same as anyone else but we all share the fact that we want to make our lives as good as we possibly can. There are many ways to achieve happiness and everything that is wanted out of life can make you happy. Whatever a person’s truest desire may be, if they obtain that desire they obtain happiness. All that is desired falls under “What will make you happy in life?” We long to be happy, but what gets us there?