Gladness Quotes

“Be glad for your sacred days on earth.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Sadness and gladness succeed each other

— Proverb

“I feel so glad to be alive!”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I feel glad to be alive.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Gladness comes from God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Carols of gladness ring from every tree.

— Fanny Kemble

“Was my gladness sin?”

— Julie Berry

“The grace of God is joyous gladness.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Those who find courage to pursue their dreams, manifest gladness of the soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

— George Eliot

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

— Patti Page

“I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass.

— Sarah Knowles Bolton

Strew your gladness on earth's bed, So be merry, so be dead.

— Anonymous

Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.

— Sam Walter Foss

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

— Saadi

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

— James Broughton

Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness.

— John Muir

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

— William Wordsworth

A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the…

— Mark Twain

Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No…

— Friedrich Schiller

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

— Ben Jonson

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for…

— Roberto Benigni

What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.

— Henry David Thoreau

Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is joy in hell when a saint grows idle! There is gladness among devils when we cease to pray, when we…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Van Morrison

The whole history of the Christian life is a series of resurrections. . . . Every time we find our hearts are…

— George MacDonald

Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life;…

— Ouida

May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun…

— Anonymous

The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of…

— Lydia M. Child

Now is the month of Maying, When merry lads are playing. Fa la la... Each with his bonny lass, upon the greeny…

— Thomas Morley

The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There is little we can point to in our lives as deserving anything but God's wrath. Our best moments have been mostly…

— Frederick Buechner

Let us be mindful of the foundational precepts our Heavenly Father has given to His children that will establish the basis of…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy…

— George Eliot

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

— Helen Keller

If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On…

— Helen Keller

Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man…

— George Eliot

Prayer changes from entreaty to thanksgiving, and meditation on the divine truths of faith fills the heart with a sense of jubilation…

— Gregory Palamas