There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. - James Russell Lowell
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes. - James Russell Lowell
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend. - James Russell Lowell
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. - James Russell Lowell
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. - Egon Schiele
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. - Khalil Gibran
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life. - Paul Tsongas
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. - John Sterling
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. - Mark Twain
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. - Vaclav Havel