#joy

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

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The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#gratitude #joy #les-miserables #suffering #victor-hugo

I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#ecstasy #individuality #joy-of-life #life

The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us. ↗

— St. Thomas Aquinas

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Live a good life. In the end it is not the years in a life, but the life in the years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#enjoy-life #misattributed #life

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#rhythm #stream-of-life #life

Enjoy every bit of your life to the fullest. Your compromises and sacrifices will be rewarded. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life #life-lessons #life

Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#life

Life isn't just to be endured, it's to be enjoyed. ↗

— Gordon B.Hinckley

#life

It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

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