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about this blog

everyday joys abound. it's a matter of perspective. for every trial there is a joy. for every loss there is a gain. finding the benefits to typical challenges brings to focus the beauty of daily life. it's as simple as keeping what i call a joy journal, jotting down the small gifts of being alive. the scent of a fresh breeze. the handshake of a friend. sounds and sights. aromas and textures. life is a grand blessing, but it's one that is carefully made of tiny and simple joys. just like a mural, it's pieced together stroke by stroke with the light and dark elements living together (one is never found without the other). This blog inspires us to open our eyes and hearts to these tiny but tangible building blocks that can create a world of celebration... and a life of possibilities.


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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
- Ben Franklin


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Monday, May 30, 2005

When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.
- Tenzin Gyatso, Dalai Lama


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Sunday, May 29, 2005

Happiness is a warm puppy.
- Charles Schulz


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Saturday, May 28, 2005

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one—keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
- Mark Twain


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Friday, May 27, 2005

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
- Samuel Johnson


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Thursday, May 26, 2005

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
- Thomas Fuller


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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
- Sigmund Freud


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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
- Fontenelle


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Monday, May 23, 2005

What we do does not give us simplicity, but it does put us in the place where we can receive it. It sets our lives before God in such a way that He can work into us the grace of simplicity.
- Richard J. Foster


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Saturday, May 21, 2005

Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love,
Help to make earth happy like the Heaven above.
- Julia Fletcher Carney


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Friday, May 20, 2005

We live among marvels... each flower a masterpiece of subtle beauty, form and scent.
- Marion C. Garretty


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Thursday, May 19, 2005

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
- Euripedes


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Monday, May 16, 2005

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
- Charles Caleb Colton


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Saturday, May 14, 2005

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
- Albert Camus


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Monday, May 09, 2005

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
- St. Augustine


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Saturday, May 07, 2005

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
- Aristotle


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Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.
- Primo Levi


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Monday, May 02, 2005

Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.
- Aristotle


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