Repentance sounds like laughter and fun. We have embraced…

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug…

— Jodi Picoult

“God’s joy can fill our days with gladness until we receive the answer we are waiting for.”

— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think…

— Luis Walter Alvarez

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

— Lillie Langtry

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,

— George Herbert

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