“If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.”
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Gilbert Chesterton
3 quotes“The true object of all human life is play.”
Joseph Campbell
2 quotes“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
Lucy Maud Montgomery
2 quotes“We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy.”
Gordon B. Hinckley
2 quotes“In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.”
Iris Murdoch
1 quote“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”
Zhuangzi
1 quote“I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1 quote“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy.”
Mark Twain
1 quote“Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt.”
Emily Dickinson
1 quote“The mere sense of living is joy enough.”
Sigmund Freud
1 quote“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
Jack Kerouac
1 quote“How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning?”
Chris Brown
1 quote“Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.”