James Clavell Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.

  James Clavell

  Karma, Strong, Hate

  JAMES CLAVELL (1975). “SHOGUN”

• Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn't give way to these, he's patient. I'm not as strong as I might be but I'm patient.

  James Clavell

  Strong, Hate, Grief

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.1131, Dell

• Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.

  James Clavell

  Joy, Shoguns, Indescribable

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.979, Dell

• Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it.

  James Clavell

  Home, Night, Men

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