Character is often formed on the anvil of pain.
- Alan Crippen

Ps. 5.11-12

“But let all who take refuge in you rejoice;
let them ever sing for joy,
and spread your protection over them,
that those who love your name may exult in you.
For you bless the righteous, O Lord;
you cover him with favor as with a shield.”

http://ref.ly/BibleESV.Ps5.11-12 via the Logos Bible Android app.

Pleasures.forever

You make known to me the path of life;
in your presence there is fullness of joy;
at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
- Ps 16.11 ESV

meaning

The meaning of earthly existence lies not as we've grown used to thinking,
in prospering but in the development of the soul.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward (1968)

music

Music expresses that which cannot be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo

In your presence is full joy

I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
I have no good apart from you.”
...
You make known to me the path of life;
in your presence there is fullness of joy;
at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
- Ps. 16.2, 11

tempest of living

“Do and dare what is right, not swayed by the whim of the moment. Bravely take hold of the real, not dallying now with what might be. Not in the flight of ideas but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of living.”

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics