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Cheerfulness, Gratitude
Happiness, Joy
Quotes for Those that Love
Gardens, Gardening, and the Green Way
Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo
Let me arise and open the gate,
to breathe the wild warm air of the heath,
And to let in Love, and to let out Hate,
And anger at living and scorn of Fate,
To let in Life, and to let out Death.
- Violet Fane
Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.
- Irving Cristol
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
- James M. Barrie
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it
that he always has good company.
- Charles Evans Hughes
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling,
a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way
of the best happiness.
- Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon
the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making
the most that happens seem the best.
- Dorothy Dix
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
- William Blake
Exuberance is Beauty.
- William Blake
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take
nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind
that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you
is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the
good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off
the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
- Albert Schweitzer
The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
- Mencius
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite
sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with
my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
- Bertrand Russell
I've learned the great value of the three F's:
forgive, forget and forge ahead.
Happy is the man who loves the woods and waters,
Brother to the grass and well beloved of Pan;
The earth shall be his, and all her laughing daughters.
Happy the man.
- Richard le Galliene, Beatus Vir
And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden,
You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.
- Rudyard Kipling, 1865 - 1936, The Glory of the Garden
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not
to be picked in strangers' gardens.
- Douglas Jerrold
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation;
you do not find it among gross people.
- Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784
Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.
- Philander Johnson
One kind word can warm three winter months.
- Japanese proverb
The best way to cheer yourself up
Is to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Happiness is something that comes into our lives
through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
- Rose Lane
You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide.
Both are forces of nature.
- William Rotsler
Acquire the grateful habit, learn to see how blest you are,
How much there is to gladden life, how little life to mar!
And what if rain shall fall today and you with grief are sad;
Be grateful that you can recall the joys that you have had.
- Edgar Guest
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode
of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
- Iris Murdoch
Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only
to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden....
Creating any garden, big or small, is, in the end, all about joy.
- Julie Moir Messervy
A day so happy.
Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden.
Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers.
There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.
I know no one worth my envying him.
- Czeslaw Milosz, Gift