Sprinkle joy. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Just found this over at Demanding Joy. Miss Mary you'll like this one.

I've been changing the quote in Maybethinking's masthead with some frequency. Today's is the first on this list.

Inspiring Quotes

1. If you want to be happy, be.   – Leo Tolstoy
2. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.   – Mark Twain
3. Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys.  If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.   – Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.   – Margaret Young
5. Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.   – Eleanor Roosevelt
6. Jumping for joy is good exercise.
7. One joy scatters a hundred griefs.   – Chinese proverb
8. Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.   – Robert Brault
9. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.   – Walt Disney
10. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.   – Eleanor Roosevelt
11. I say “Out” to every negative thought that comes to my mind.  No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind.  I create my own reality and everyone in it.   – Louise Hay  ---I'm practicing this one. Not much success yet.
    
12. The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.    – Anna Quindlen
13. I am woman!  I am invincible!  I am pooped!
14. If you’re going through hell, keep going.   – Winston Churchill
15. Your problem is you’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness.   – Ram Dass
16. Trust your gut.   – Barbara Walters
17. Action is the antidote to despair.   – Joan Baez
18. You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes.  You can steer yourself any direction you choose.  You’re on your own and you know what you know.  And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.   – Dr. Seuss
19. What the caterpillar calls a tragedy, the Master calls a butterfly.   – Richard Bach
20. Earth’s crammed with heaven.   – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
21. Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.   – Michel de Montaigne
22. Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness.  Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.   – Andre Gide
23. Speak your mind even if your voice shakes.
24. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.   – Mae West
25. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.   – Eleanor Roosevelt
26. Sprinkle joy.   – Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.   – Johann von Goethe
28. She realized that she was missing a great deal by being sensible.
29. She was kind and loving and patient…with herself.
30. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I’ve ended up where I needed to be.   – Douglas Adams
31. You’ll never be sad if you remember all the good things that have happened to you.  Karolina Grekov
32. What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.
33. Conquering any difficulty always gives on a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one’s liberty.   – Henri Frederic Amiel
34. When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.   – Cecil Selig
35. A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection.  She values and uses all of her gifts.   – Nancy Rathburn
36. Everything you do prepares you for the next thing.   – John Abel
37. It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.   – Sally Kempton---boy I get that!
    
38. There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.   – Lemony Snicket
39. A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at her   – David Brinkley
40. Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.   – Dorothy Parker
41. I begin now, today, to open myself to ever-increasing prosperity.   – Louise Hay
42. Seize the moment.  Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert.   – Erma Bombeck
43. Anything you are good at contributes to happiness.  – Bertrand Russell
44. The only way to save our dreams is by being generous with ourselves.   – The Pilgramage
45. Never miss an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful.   – Janet Hobson
46. A strong woman understands the importance of creating space for personal well-being, spiritual nourishment, and regeneration in order to maintain her authenticity, especially when the universe whacks her with its two-by-four and hands her days when it takes a great deal of courage just to show up.   – Laura Folse
47. Strength means recognizing that it is impossible to be strong all the time.   – Sally Franser
48. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.   – Mary Tyler Moore
49. Keep breathing.   – Sophie Tucker
50. She went out on a limb, had it break off behind her, and discovered she could fly.
51. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined.   – Henry David Thoreau
52. Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.   – Eleanor Roosevelt
53. It doesn’t happen all at once.  You become.  It takes a long time.   – Margery Williams
54. As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were.   – The Zahir
55. She discovered that she was the one she’d been waiting for.
56. Being strong means rejoicing in who you are, complete with imperfections.   – Margaret Woodhouse
57. Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.   – John Lennon
58. Happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.   – Roy Goodman
59. Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
60. The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow but the rainbow won’t wait while you do the work.
61. Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
62. Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.   – Marianne Williamson
63. There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.   – Christopher Morley

Peace.
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