“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.”
Gordon B. Hinckley
2 quotes“In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.”
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.”
George Santayana
1 quote“To knock a thing down especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight to the blood.”
Wendell Berry
1 quote“When I rise uplet me rise up joyfullike a bird.When I falllet me fall without regretlike a leaf.”
Laini Taylor
1 quote“You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?”
Eckhart Tolle
1 quote“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”
Robert Browning
1 quote“T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter the day's delight!”
Will Rogers
1 quote“We are all here for a spell get all the good laughs you can.”
Mary West
1 quote“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1 quote“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”