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• 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

  Life, Death, Gratitude

  Violet Fane (1880). “Collected Verses”

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• A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Nature

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• I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Life, Appreciation, Gratitude

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• O happiness! our being's end and aim!
  Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name:
  That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,
  For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Gratitude, Appreciation

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 4 (1734) l. 1

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• 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

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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• Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

  Irving Kristol

  Happiness, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Gratitude, Appreciation

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (48), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.

  Reginald Farrer

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

  Reginald Farrer (1973). “In a Yorkshire Garden”

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• The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Humanity, Morality

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• Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Joy, Unexpected, Compare

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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• There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Joy, Exaltation, Events

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• I'm so happy that James Baraz's AWAKENING JOY class is now available in book form.  His class has been helpful to thousands of people.  I plan to give it to all my clients who are struggling with creating a life of meaning and happiness.  Joyfulness is our birthright.  This book shows you how to reclaim it.

  M. J. Ryan

  Struggle, Book, Class

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• To bear adversity with meek submission to the will of God; to endure chastisement with all long-suffering and joyfulness; to appear cheerful amid surrounding gloom, hopeful amidst desponding circumstances, happy in God when there is nothing else to make us happy; he who does this has indeed made great advances in the divine life.

  John Angell James

  Adversity, Long, Hopeful

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 565, 1895.

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• You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness.

  Philip Sidney

  Heart, Exercise, Age

  Sir Philip Sidney (1929). “AN APOLOGIE FOR POETRIE”, p.100, CUP Archive

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