a blog of joy

Thursday, March 31, 2005

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
- Alice Meynell

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Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Lovely, complicated wrappings
Sheath the gift of one-day-more;
Breathless, I untie the package -
Never lived this day before.
- Gloria Gaither

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005

... let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
- Matthew 5:16 NIV

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Monday, March 28, 2005

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Thursday, March 24, 2005

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
- Anon

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
- Lord Byron

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Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.

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Monday, March 21, 2005

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
- Martha Washington

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Saturday, March 19, 2005

Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth. Without it, happiness is almost impossible.

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Friday, March 18, 2005

Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
- Mary Baker Eddy

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Thursday, March 17, 2005

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
- Ursula K. LeGuin

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Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
- John Templeton

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Tuesday, March 15, 2005

It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.
- Sharon Salzberg

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Monday, March 14, 2005

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
- Amy Lowell

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Saturday, March 12, 2005

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
- Aristotle

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Thursday, March 10, 2005

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
- Democritus

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Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.
- Sue Monk Kidd

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Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Praise be to the... God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
- 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 NIV

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Monday, March 07, 2005

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
- Helen Keller

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Saturday, March 05, 2005

Having it all doesn't necessarily mean having it all at once.
- Stephanie Luetkehaus

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Friday, March 04, 2005

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Russell Lynes

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Thursday, March 03, 2005

For the soul of every living thing is in the hand of God, and the breath of all mankind.
- Job 12:10 TLB

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Wednesday, March 02, 2005

All the things in this world are gifts and signs of God's love to us. The whole world is a love letter from God.
- Peter Kreeft

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Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Why is everyone hungry for more?
I have God's more-than-enough, more joy in one ordinary day... At day's end I'm ready for sound sleep, for you, God, have put my life back together.
- Psalm 4:6-8 MSG

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