a blog of joy

Thursday, June 30, 2005

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
- Ben Hogan

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Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say, is what counts.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005

The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
- William Blake

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Monday, June 27, 2005

You're blessed when you've lost it all. God's kingdom is there for the finding.
- Luke 6:20 MSG

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Saturday, June 25, 2005

Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
- Charles Dickens

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Friday, June 24, 2005

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
- Bertrand Russell

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Thursday, June 23, 2005

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
- Bertrand Russell

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Wednesday, June 22, 2005

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
- Publilius Syrus

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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller

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Monday, June 20, 2005

Loveliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.
- John Milton

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Sunday, June 19, 2005

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
- Henry Miller

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Saturday, June 18, 2005

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
- Jacques Prévert

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Friday, June 17, 2005

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Thursday, June 16, 2005

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller

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Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills

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Tuesday, June 14, 2005

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
- Johann von Goethe

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Monday, June 13, 2005

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
- E. B. White

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Saturday, June 11, 2005

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
- Agnes Repplier

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Friday, June 10, 2005

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde

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Thursday, June 09, 2005

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- The Dalai Lama

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Wednesday, June 08, 2005

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain

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Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
- Aristotle

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Monday, June 06, 2005

... whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things.
- Philippians 4:8 NIV

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Saturday, June 04, 2005

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

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Friday, June 03, 2005

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
- Cynthia Nelms

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Thursday, June 02, 2005

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
- Roy M. Goodman

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Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation. Foolish preparation?
- Jane Austen

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