With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow — I have still joy in the midst of all these things. – Confucius Category: Joy, Excitement
For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good. – John Dryden Category: Joy, Excitement
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. – Michel de Montaigne Category: Joy, Excitement
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. – George Bernard Shaw Category: Kwanzaa
He who does not know how to believe, should not know. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Belief
