Quote Tag

Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, ‘Children’s Letters to God.’ You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, ‘Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.’

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Too few rejoice at a friend’s good fortune.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.