a blog of joy

Monday, January 31, 2005

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
- Samuel Johnson

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Saturday, January 29, 2005

Twenty years from now you will be disappointed by the things that you didn't do than the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

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Friday, January 28, 2005

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus

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Thursday, January 27, 2005

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Wednesday, January 26, 2005

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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Tuesday, January 25, 2005

The more you spend in blessing
The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart's possessing
Returns to make you glad.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

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Monday, January 24, 2005

May there always be work for your hands to do,
May your purse always hold a coin or two.
May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane,
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you,
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
- Anonymous

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Saturday, January 22, 2005

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Hellen Keller

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Friday, January 21, 2005

Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

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Thursday, January 20, 2005

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington

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Wednesday, January 19, 2005

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
- Chinese Proverb

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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Monday, January 17, 2005

It really is possiblle to color a dark canvas golden, even with the tiniest of brushes. You just keep on dabbing the paint, and sooner or later you transform the surface with brightness.

In the same way, if you keep on making joy choices, small and large, your heart will eventually display a joyful tint that is more durable than you ever imagined.
- Thomas Kinkade

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Saturday, January 15, 2005

First, keep peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
- Thomas a Kempis

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Friday, January 14, 2005

Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith, of acceptance; a quiet tranquil realization of the love of God.
- White Eagle

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Thursday, January 13, 2005

Deep, abiding joy is available to anyone who learns the secret of pursuing every task with energy and dedication, as though it were a calling.
- Thomas Kinkade

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Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.
- William Butler Yeats

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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp...
But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Monday, January 10, 2005

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
- Pearl S. Buck

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Saturday, January 08, 2005

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain

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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain

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Friday, January 07, 2005

Once you begin looking, you may be surprised to discover just how much joy your world has to offer.
- Thomas Kinkade

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Thursday, January 06, 2005

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
- Charles Lamb

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Wednesday, January 05, 2005

You don't need to travel long distances to revel in natural beauty. All you have to do, most of the time, is go outside and look at the sky.
- Thomas Kinkade

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Tuesday, January 04, 2005

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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Monday, January 03, 2005

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
- Psalms 23:6, KJV

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