#joy

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#away #awhile #birds #bring #come

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that! ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#fellow #give #greater #happiness #happy

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#both #enjoy #enjoy reading #experience #i

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#james #james joyce #joyce #judge #left

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#creator #expressed #feeling #greater #joy

My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#chosen #class #dance #enjoyed #i

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#chance #comfortable #conviction #enjoy #game

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated. (11) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#different #joy #self #self-care #self-esteem

Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#enjoy #favourite #fortunately #going #instead

When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#back #before #college #enjoyed #good