And the joy of it all when we count it all up is found in the making of friends.
And the joy of it all when we count it all up is found in the making of friends.
Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity as well. No one of God's children should ever be bored with life.
Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.
The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.
When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy.
His thoughts were slow. His words were few and never formed to glisten. But he was a joy to all his friends, you should have heard him LISTEN
It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.
Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.
When life seems just a dreary grind and things seem fated to annoy say something nice to someone else and watch the world light up with joy.
Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
God gave man the challenge of raw materials -- not the ease of finished things. He left the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation.
Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness
Why were the saints, saints Because they were cheerful when it was difficult to be cheerful, patient when it was difficult to be patient and because they pushed on when they wanted to stand still, and kept silent when they wanted to talk, and were agreeable when they wanted to be disagreeable. That was all. It was quite simple and always will be.
The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories