Quotes
Quotes about Joy
Joy is a partnership, Grief weeps alone, Many guests had Cana; Gethsemane but one.
Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
From labour health, from health contentment spring; Contentment opes the source of every joy.
We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent, Nor aim beyond our pow'r; For, if our stock be very small, 'Tis prudent to enjoy it all, Nor lose the present hour.
Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish th' approaches of the last.
What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.
Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown; Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent; The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown: Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss.
Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain. [Lat., Sit mihi quod nunc est, etiam minus et mihi vivam Quod superest aevi--si quid superesse volunt di.]
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and.
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor ; spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature?
Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring.
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
Bright flowers, whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy and sorrow, Methinks that there abides in thee Some concord with humanity, Given to no other flower I see The forest through.
On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
