Quotes About Gladness

Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

Kenya, Kazakhstan and K Street too? Yes...that all of God's people might love and serve him with gladness and singleness of heart, in our various vocations taking the wounds of the world into our hearts - the heartaches and longings, sorrows and disappointments, and sometimes evil - and finding in that calling that our own hearts are healed too. In N.T. Wright's theologically rich image, becoming healed healers . May it be so.

To be like Christ requires us to be full of joy and gladness.

Four years! My heart was glad as birds.

You would never Envy if you would but realize the Accumulated Power that comes by profiting from the Success of other people. Be glad of the Big Luck of somebody else. Be wise enough to let its Inspiration lift you up.

Maybe this is why the Earth has the power over time to wash sorrow into a deeper pool, cold and shadowed. And maybe this is why, even though sorrow never disappears, it can make a deeper connection to the currents of life and so connect, somehow, to sources of wonder and solace. I don't know. And I don't know what gladness is or where it comes from that feels like a splitting open of the self. It takes me by surprise.

Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? (..) Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared (..) Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim.

You pushed me away mister. You rejected me. You tricked me and spoiled things between me and my true love. I've seen you before. Long ago, just lying there as you are now. Black, broken, dying, I was glad then and I'm glad now.

The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.

This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad.

He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

I will stand beside you through all of this, ' she said when she could finally speak. "And welcome you home with gladness when it's over, and you return triumphant.

A smile is on everyone's lips.

Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for moments…And then be gone, With gladness in your heart, Before the creeping shadowsClaim too much your sadness at leaving.

For God has comforted Zion, and will take pity on all her waste places; Turning her wilderness into an Eden, her desert into the garden of God. Joy and gladness will be found in her, and thanksgiving, and the sounds of singing."12

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps for gladness.

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they did not last?

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.