#rejoice

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#forget #forth #freedom #fun #have fun

I only know what it is that's wrong with him; not why it is." And what is it?" asked Lucy fearfully, expecting some harrowing tale. The old trouble; things won't fit." What things?" The things of the universe. It's quite true. They don't." Oh Mr. Emerson, whatever do you mean?" In his ordinary voice, so that she scarcely realized he was quoting poetry, he said: "'From far, from eve and morning, And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither: here am I." George and I both know this, but why does it distress him? We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all of life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us rather love one another, and work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world of sorrow. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#knot #life #rejoice #tangle #life

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#content #lacking #nothing #realize #rejoice

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#being yourself #own #really #rejoice #your

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. ↗

— Marie Curie

#life #like #made #me #my life

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly. ↗

— Jim Elliot

#done #gladly #god #grieve #rather

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#between #consider #decisive #encounter #faith

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#harder #i #life #live #more

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#duty #eternity #laugh #others #rejoice

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign. ↗

— James K. Polk

#become #cease #close #heartily #i