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• To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Children, Fear

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• The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces of people goin' by I see friends shaking hands saying, "How do you do" They're really saying "I love you." I hear babies cry, I watch then grow They'll learn much more than I'll ever know; And I think to myself, What a wonderful world; Yes, I think to myself, What a wonderful world. Oh yeah!

  Louis Armstrong

  Baby, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and sight; Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.

  Folliott Sandford Pierpoint

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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• The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Sadness, Reality

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, New Directions Publishing

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• When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

  Umberto Eco

  Atheist, Believe, Men

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.615, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Happiness, Gratitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.140, Harvard University Press

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• Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone.

  Gautama Buddha

  Joy, Suffering, World

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• Gratitude helps us to return to our natural state of joyfulness, where we notice what's right instead of what's wrong. It makes us feel complete, that we have everything we need, at least in this moment.

  M. J. Ryan

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Needs

  M.J. Ryan (2009). “Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life”, p.2, Conari Press

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• (Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

  Abraham Maslow

  Thanksgiving, Appreciation, Gratitude

  Abraham H. Maslow (1970). “Motivation and Personality”

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• Joy and woe are woven fine.

  William Blake

  Joy, Woven, Woe

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• All our moments are last moments. We abide in the forever leaving of our own coming? We can put our hands together, palm to palm, settling here on the last leaf of our brief flight, and bow to the wonder of it.

  Jens Jensen

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Time

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• And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

  Rudyard Kipling, David Arscott (2007). “A Sussex Kipling”, p.85, Pomegranate Press

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• A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.

  Paul Fleischman

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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• Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden.... Creating any garden, big or small, is, in the end, all about joy.

  Julie Moir Messervy

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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• A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood... How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Writing, Wine, Glasses

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume I; lecture 3: "The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences")". Book by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, 1964.

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• Happy is the man who loves the woods and waters,
  Brother to the grass and well beloved of Pan;
  The earth shall be his, and all her laughing daughters.
  Happy the man.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Love, Daughter, Gratitude

  Richard Le Gallienne (1920). “The Junk-man, and Other Poems”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page

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• Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful, and if you feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, instead of becoming a burden.

  Tulku Thondup

  Thinking, Fire, Joy

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• What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

  Helen Keller

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Nature

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men

  Thomas Huxley

  Mean, Men, Fellow Man

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “More Criticisms on Darwin, and Administrative Nihilism”, p.79

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• I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.

  Upton Sinclair

  Perfect, Body, Good Health

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Fasting Cure”, p.7, Youcanprint

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• If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness and peacefulness.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Responsibility

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• The man [who] is greatest and most blessed and joyful [is one] whose life most closely approaches the pattern of Christ. This has nothing to do with earthly wealth, power, or prestige. The only true test of greatness, blessedness, joyfulness is how close can a life come to being like the Master, Jesus Christ. He is the right way, the full truth, and the abundant life.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Blessed, Greatness

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• Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Rivers, Honor

  Mary Oliver (2013). “Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition”, p.63, Penguin

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• All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.

  Edmund Spenser

  Happiness, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Edmund Spenser, John Hughes (1750). “The Works: In Sex Volumes. With A Glossary Explaining the Old and Obscure Words. To which is Prefix'd the Life of the Author, and an Essay on Allegorical Poetry”, p.270

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• Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

  Horace

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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