The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

Topics: Joy Quotes

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

Good-humor makes all things tolerable

Good-humor makes all things tolerable

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to...

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to...

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of...

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of...

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper...

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper...

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to...

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to...

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of...

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of...

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for...

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for...

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up,...

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up,...

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in...

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in...

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a...

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a...

By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings...

By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings...

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted...

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted...

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one...

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one...

Live for yourself -- there's no one else More worth living for Begging hands and...

Live for yourself -- there's no one else More worth living for Begging hands and...

All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end, contain within themselves the seeds...

All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end, contain within themselves the seeds...