430 quotes found
“One must have sorrow to truly appreciate joy.”
“Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brie...”
“Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.”
“The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime...”
“The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would b...”
“I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill himonly to bring him to life.”
“I'd rather laugh in a tent than cry in a palace.”
“To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.”
“The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.”
“Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.”
“The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.”
“Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others”
“There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile...”
“The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.”
“We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.”
“I trust all joy”
“As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it ...”
“A person can drop dead even while singing. But that's no reason to stop singing.”
“The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that little incandescence you see in people when the charm of a thing s...”
“Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itsel...”
