Misc. Quotes

1. "Dissent without resistance is consent." Henry David Thoreau
2. "When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint, but when I ask why people should be hungry, they call me a communist." Brazilian Archbishop Dom Helder Camara
3. "It is not how much you give, but how much you have left over after giving that God counts" Godwin Penrhyn-Lowe
4. States are not moral agents; people are, and they can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. If they do not, the fine words will remain weapons. - Noam Chomsky, Rogue State.
5. Generosity is not measured by how much you give. It's measured by how much you have left. - Bishop Fulton Sheen
6. All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
   - Bertrand Russell
7. "What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life." - Henry Nouwen-In the Name of Jesus, 1989
8. "The giving of love is an education in itself." Eleanor Roosevelt
9. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” Edmund Burke
10. There is but one unconditional commandment, which is that we should seek incessantly, with fear and trembling, so to vote and to act as to bring about the very largest total of good which we can see.
    -William James
    The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life
11. "Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give." Eleanor Roosevelt
12. "The mere sense of living is joy enough." Emily Dickinson
13. "Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!" Friedrich Nietzsche
14. "Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value." Albert Einstein
15. "During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight." Fritjof Capra, physicist
16. "This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
17. "The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die." George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
18. Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do. Gerry Sikorski
19. If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap. Glen Buck
20. While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance. Hans Bos
21. We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
22. The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. Henry Ward Beecher
23. I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
24. People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well. Joe Gibbs
    A joy that's shared is a joy made double. John Ray
25. Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you have to do, you do with play. I think a good way to conceive of sacred space is as a playground. If what you're doing seems like play, you are in it. But you can't play with my toys, you have to have your own. Your life should have yielded some. Older people play with life experiences and realizations or with thoughts they like to entertain. In my case, I have books I like to read that don't lead anywhere. Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion - Reflections on the Art of Living; selected and edited by Diane K. Osborn
26. I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure. Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
27. Joy fills the body and expands beyond its bounds.The intellect is quieted by joy.The body bridges to the spirit via joy.It's good stuff is joy! Leah Klein
28. When people ponder 'the big questions' like 'who am I?' and 'what's the meaning of life' the answer rarely seems to be about joy. I know love seems to be the usual answer but that gets interpreted, misinterpreted, reinterpreted endlessly whereas joy seems a less confused feeling - pure essence, laughter, lightness, richness, playful, expansive, encompassing, boundless. Leah Klein
29. Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it. Lin Yutang
30. I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! Louise Bogan
31. It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Marcia Wieder
32. Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
    The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
33. May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility. Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey, 1995
34. Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing. Matt Biondi
    The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
35. Never let anyone steal your joy. Mike Richards
    Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
36. The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power. Ninon de Lenclos (1620 - 1705)
    I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
37. There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness. Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
38. Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing. Phil Jackson
39. Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. Pierre Coneille
40. To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
41. The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. Richard Bach
42. Joy is not in things; it is in us. Richard Wagner
    No joy can equal the joy of serving others. Sai Baba
43. Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy. Sarah Ban Breathnach
44. My mind to me a kingdom is,Such present joys therein I find,That it excels all other bliss. Sir Edward Dyer
45. Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865 - 1940)
46. There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life. Sister Mary Rose McGeady
47. When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
48. Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time. T. S. Elliot
49. Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. Thich Nhat Hanh
50. Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind. Thomas Campbell (1777 - 1844)
51. Joy comes from using your potential. Will Schultz
52. Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2
53. I wish you all the joy that you can wish. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), (Merchant of Venice)
54. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson
55. Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
56. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
57. The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.” Alexandra Stoddard (American philosopher and designer)
58. The joy that isn't shared dies young. Anne Sexton
    I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world. Ani Difranco (American Singer, Song Writer and Guitarist. b.1970)
59. I asked God for all things, that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things. Anonymous Author
60. Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss. Anonymous Author
61. It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
62. A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live. Bertrand Russell
63. The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days. Bible: Ecclesiasticus. XXX. 22
64. The only joy in the world is to begin. Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)
65. Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. Charles Du Bos
66. The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. Chauncey Depew
67. Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. E. H. Chapin
68. When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. Cherokee Indian Saying
69. One joy scatters a hundred griefs. Chinese Proverb
70. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. Earl Nightingale
71. Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days. Ecclesiastes
72. Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. Eileen Caddy