Gladness Quotes
143 Gladness quotes by 108 unique authors
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I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against the tiny ear and throw him higher. Pittsburgh…
— Jack Gilbert
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Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and…
— James M. Barrie
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No one has success, until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold qualities of energy, enthusiasm, and gladness.
— L. Whitney Clayton
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What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And…
— George Santayana
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Carols of gladness ring from every tree.
— Fanny Kemble
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I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness.
— John Muir
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If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On the other hand,…
— Helen Keller
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Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around…
— Bill Vaughan
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Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the…
— James Freeman Clarke
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
— Washington Irving
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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.
— Lillie Langtry
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Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.
— Leo Tolstoy
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I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different…
— Henry David Thoreau
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We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
— Frederick Buechner
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Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement…
— Frederick Buechner
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found…
— Charles Darwin
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The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active,…
— Martin Luther
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We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
— Jack Gilbert
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Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a…
— Mark Twain
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He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as…
— John Eldredge
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As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Who Wrote These Gladness Quotes
108 authors contributed a total of 143 Gladness Quotes, led by these top contributors: