Joy Quotes
Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that Fate allows you.
Horace
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Joy exists only in self-acceptance. Seek perfect acceptance, not a perfect life.
Anon xxxx
Always direct your thoughts to those truths that will give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving, and turn away your mind from those that inspire you with fear, sadness, depression.
Bertrand Wilbertforce
At the judgement day a man will be called to account for all the good things he might have enjoyed and did not enjoy.
Jewish Proverb
He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.
William Hazlett
Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.
Henry Van Dyke
One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me,' and other such simple courtesies... Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in the enjoyment of life.
Ed Hays
Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.
Alexis De Tocqueville
