“When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains.”
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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.”
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.”
Ronald Reagan
1 quote“Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.”
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.”