Joy

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love.  --Sophia Loren

Autumn… the year's last, loveliest smile.  -- William Cullen Bryant

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience.Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.-- Hal Borland

Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.-- Sare and Cate

The pine stays green in winter…wisdom in hardship.-- Norman Douglas

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.-- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

The only thing in your hands is your life —make it as rich as possible.-- Osho

Autumn… the year's last, loveliest smile.  -- William Cullen Bryant

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness. -- Albert Einstein

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. -- Victor Hugo

True beauty is the energy you give out, and that comes through being HAPPY.-- Cindy Crawford

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.-- Rabindranath Tagore

Each sunrise gives hope to your dreams and light to your plans. -- William Ngwako Maphoto

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Selected Works

It never will rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant trees. -- G. Eliot

Life’s a climb. But the view is great. -- Miley Cyrus

Laughter is the joyous universal evergreen of life! -- Abraham Lincoln


Summertime is always the best of what might be. -- Charles Bowden

Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away. -- Sarah Kay

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. -- Phyllis Diller

The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home. -- Christopher Columbus

Never be so busy as not to think of others.  -- Mother Teresa, 'The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living'

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.” -- John Lubbock, 'The Use of Life'

When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty, my only response is that I am grateful that I have a cup! -- Unknown Author

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace. -- Kate Chopin

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. -- Sam Keen

Life is a great adventure or nothing. -- Helen Keller

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being. -- Victor Hugo

Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day. -- Jodie Foster

Respect for the world begins with respect for the human body. -- Pope Francis


Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being. -- Victor Hugo

Do anything, but let it produce joy. -- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. -- Audrey Hepburn

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Time, as it grows old, teaches all things. -- Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound


Clear stream
flowing like rhyme...
down the rocks of old age,
transporting the strong smell of sage
for wage!
-- Andrew Crisci

I love the sweet smell of dawn – our unique daily opportunity to smell time, to smell opportunity – each morning being, a new beginning. -- Emme Woodhull-Bäche

We read to know we’re not alone. -- William Nicholson, Shadowlands

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. -- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. -- Seneca

A cup of tea is an excuse to share great thoughts with great minds. -- Cristina Re

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. -- Khalil Gibran

A wise man never loses anything if he has himself. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Give, said the little stream,
Give, oh give, give, oh give,
As it hurried down the hill.
I am small, I know, but wherever I go
The fields grow greener still.
--  Fanny Crosby, "Give, said the little stream"

Don’t wait for someone to bring your flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul. -- Luther Burbank

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just. -- Pope Francis

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

The rainbow fish shared his scales left and right. And the more he gave away the more delighted he became. -- Marcus Pfister, "The Rainbow Fish"

I am unfolding.
Gently shedding the layers,
Fragile like butterfly wings.
Evolving,
Becoming something new.
These growing pains,
I feel each shift in my bones
The necessary movements.
I know I must first survive the darkness,
In order to find the light.
Like a lotus through the mud.
-- Jamie Hunt

A loving companion is always nice to have by one’s side.-- Unknown autho

Looking out over the lake, I felt enveloped in the most peaceful, loving utopia. -- Laurie Kahn

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spread in all direction -- Chanakya

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -- Francis Bacon

I never get tired of the blue sky. -- Vincent Van Gogh

Sunny morning---
the last dew drop
still clings to a flower
 
a tiny rainbow
on its wings---
a busy humming bird
 
the purple pleasure
from flower to flower---
dripping nectar
 
breakfast table---
sweet sound and scent
filling the air
-- Aristotle

Sunny morning---
the last dew drop
still clings to a flower
 
a tiny rainbow
on its wings---
a busy humming bird
 
the purple pleasure
from flower to flower---
dripping nectar
 
breakfast table---
sweet sound and scent
filling the air
-- Kash

I remind myself to be kind to myself and … to treat myself in the same gentle way I'd want to treat a daughter of mine.
-- Emma Stone

A Mother knows what her child’s gone through, even if she didn’t see it herself. -- Pramodeya Ananta Toer

Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!＂-- Robin Williams

The word “listen” contains the same letters as the word “silent”. -- Alfred Brendel

The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.  -- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

All the flowers  of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. -- Indian Proverb

Simply sailing in a new direction you could enlarge the world. -- Allen Curnow

When you're the ocean you just love to wave at people. -- Anthony T. Hincks

Getting out of your own concerns and caring about someone else’s life for a while remind you that you are not the center of the universe. -- Natalie Portman

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
More -- Kahlil Gibran

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. -- Thomas Jefferson

I live in a world of yellow and green,
An abundance of colors rarely seen,
With swirling seas of silver and gold,
And crystal mountain tops never foretold,
Sky of amber and clouds of peach,
I picture myself on a pink satin beach.
So open your eyes and let the colors shine through,
As the colors were made for me and for you.
-- Noel J. Hampson, Colors

Begin each day with a little courage, a little curiosity, and a little spring in your step. -- Doe Zantamata

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.-- Marcel Proust

The happiest thing in the world is to struggle for a noble ideal. -- Socrates

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. -- Charles Dickens

Like Branches on a tree, we grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one. -- Unknown

At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. -- Plato

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. -- Brigitte Bardot

Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There’s no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race. -- Doug Marlette

Use your knowledge and your heart to stand up for those who can’t stand. Speak for those who can’t speak. -- Julie Andrews

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. -- Walter Scott

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

An achievement is not a finish line; it's a checkpoint on a far greater journey. -- Tom Fletcher


What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. -- Plutarch

We’re all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time. -- Cressida Cowell

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No bird soarsToo high,If he soarsWith his own wingsShould never crave the rose. -- William Blake

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. -- Anne Bronte

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see. -- Angelina Jolie

If you are cold, tea will warm you;
if you are too heated, it will cool you;
If you are depressed, it will cheer you;
If you are excited, it will calm you.
-- William Ewart Gladstone

A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.-- Henry David Thoreau

A quiet conscience makes one strong.-- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. -- Mother Teresa


For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. --  Vincent Van Gogh

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience -- Ralph Woldo Emerson

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked. -- Paul Newman

O sapphire lake amid autumnal mountains,
With fire of aspens round about you burning,
I would my love and I were now returning,
Perchance to leave you never—

To dwell with you, and know the mountain seasons,
The fleeing cloud, the cliff and pine eternal,
The fall of leaf and snow and blossom vernal
Upon your placid waters.
-- Clark Ashton Smith, The Autumn Lake

Don’t waste your time looking back on what you’ve lost. Move on, for life is not meant to be traveled backwards. -- Unknown Author

In all the world
There’s nothing like
The sound of falling snow—
 
The only noise
I’ve ever known
That makes the clocks move slow;
 
The only sound
That sweeps away
The din of city streets;
 
And wraps around,
In soft embrace,
’Most everyone it meets;
 
A sound that’s not
A sound at all—
A quiet, soft and dear,
 
That comforts all
The sleepy souls
Who sit, and watch, and hear.
-- Barbara Vance, White Noise

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations. -- Oscar Wilde, 'A Woman of No Importance'

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. --  Albert Einstein

Just knowing you're not alone is often enough to kindle hope amid tragic circumstances. -- - Richelle E. Goodrich, 'Smile Anyway'

You don’t love someone because they’re perfect; you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not. -- Jodi Picoult, 'My Sister’s Keeper'

You can’t hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life. -- unknown

In a gentle way, you can shake the world. -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. -- William Blake

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. --  Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books

We can’t give up trying. The fight was worth it. -- Hillary Clinton

The point of creative expression is not fame or fortune but creative expression itself. -- Russel Crowe

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa

I think relationships are work, but love is a gift. -- Anne Hathaway

Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes, Butterflies and the songs of birds. the crash of storm-driven waves and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond. Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being. -- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Grant that I may radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace
to all those around me
and all those in my thoughts
this day and ever more.
--  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. -- Auguste Rodin

The beauty of the mountains,
Sparks creativity,
In hearts and souls,
Of young and old,
For all the world to see.
-- Pamela Joyce Randolph

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. -- Charlie Chaplin

Saints can be happy under every circumstance. --  Russell M. Nelson

Be like the bird that,pausing in her flightawhile on boughstoo slight, feels them give way beneath her,and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. --  Victor Hugo

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower -- Albert Camus

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. -- Steven Spielberg

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. - Jane Fonda

Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family. Having both – is a blessing. -- Donna Hedges

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember? -- Gregory Peck

Only peaceful mind live peaceful lives. -- Liam Gregory

When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction. -- Ginger Rogers

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible’! -- Audrey Hepburn

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient onto love. -- Khalil Gibran

The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night -- Rumi

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. -- Rabindranath Tagore

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. -- Sophia Loren

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains. -- Goldie Hawn

Curiosity is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful. -- Goldie Hawn

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. -- Samuel Johnson

Be happy. Not because everything is good, but because you can see the good side of everything. -- Romain Rolland

Life is not sad, but it has sad moments. -- Romain Rolland

Don’t start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every morning we wake up is the first day of the rest of our life. -- unknown author