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The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not ...more

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

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There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lip...more

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Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

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It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes each day to seek out a lovely flower or cloud or st...more

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What is so sweet as to awake from a troubled dream and behold a beloved face smiling upon you? I love to believe that such shall be our awakening from...more

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Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of sunbeams. Press the soft blossoms against your cheek, and finger their graces of form, their delicate mutabi...more

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Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happi...more

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Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music,...more

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For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.