Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by…

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

— Samuel Johnson

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter…

— Samuel Johnson

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

— Samuel Johnson

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want…

— Samuel Johnson

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

— Samuel Johnson

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

— Thomas a Kempis

I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were far, oh,…

— Arthur Hugh Clough

“I have for many years endeavored to make this vital truth clear; and still people marvel when I tell them that I am happy.…

— Helen Keller

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

— Abraham Lincoln

Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness,…

— Van Morrison

Come to earth to taste our sadness, He whose glories knew no end. By His life He brings us gladness, our Redeemer, Shepherd, Friend.…

— Charles Wesley

“An act of kindness blossoms our lives with gladness.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it…

— Novalis

Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from…

— Mickey Rooney