Quotes About Gladness

Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.

It is a festival which will never become obsolete, for it cherishes the best affections of the heart—the social and domestic ties. It calls together the dispersed members of the family circle, and brings plenty, joy and gladness to the dwellings of the poor and lowly. . . . The moral effect of this simple festival is essentially good.

I survived, carried on, glad to be like a weed, a wild red poppy, rooted in life.

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

Life's simplest things are love, and kindly friends, Nature's sweet charm of earth and sea and sky gladness of soul that with right living blends -- home's dear content, so cheap that all may buy.

She hadA heart—how shall I say?—too soon made glad.

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.

The page of girlhood had been turned, as by an unseen finger, and the page of womanhood was before her with all its charm and mystery, its pain and gladness.

Well, that was life. Gladness and pain... hope and fear... and change. Always change! You could not help it. You had to let the old go and take the new to your heart... learn to love it and then let it go in turn.

Spring is singing in my blood today, and the lure of April is abroad on the air. I'm seeing visions and dreaming dreams, Pris. That's because the wind is from the west. I do love the west wind. It sings of hope and gladness, doesn't it? When the east wind blows I always think of sorrowful rain on the eaves and sad waves on a gray shore. When I get old I shall have rheumatism when the wind is east. And

For spring is just around the corner and I have forgotten everything but gladness.

do love the west wind. It sings of hope and gladness, doesn't it?

Bayan Lynde'in dedi?i gibi, 'E?er ne?eli olam?yorsan, olabildi?in kadar ne?eli ol.

She loved that quaint, little old room intensely; it was almost like a living thing to her - a sharer in gladness - a comforter in sorrow.

I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting place, and he has made me glad.

If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad, To soar to endless day?

For not many men . . . can love a friend who fortune prospers without envying; and about the envious brain cold poison clings and doubles all the pain life brings him. His own woundings he must nurse, and feel another's gladness like a curse.

Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.

He pondered long over this, for might not another man, returning to another valley, have found none of these things? Why was it given to one man to have his pain transmuted into gladness? Why was it given to one man to have such an awareness of God?

Be glad. Celebrate! Lose your mindless fear, and take courage today. No, don't ever be afraid, no matter what's happened to you before. That's right, don't be afraid, no matter what you may see coming. Take courage because Christ was crucified for you."2 Catherine of Siena, Letters

Since her emotional reactions were without distinction, she had to fall back on the emotions of the past, great loves already lived and related, and over those she seemed to suffer and grow glad.

It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived.

There is a sentence in the Old Testament which I think has some reference to our situation today. It says: "And you shall be cursed because thou did not serve thy God, in joy and gladness amidst the abundance of things." [Deuteronomium 28:47] We have an abundance of things but we serve them and without joy and gladness.

You were not, are not, and should be glad you're not included in that covenant.