Redneck Fireplace

The soul is here for its own joy. - Rumi

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. - John Keats

The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome. - Unknown

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. - Italian Proverb

Life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death. - Bertrand Russell

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach. - Seneca

Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned. - Jeremy Taylor

The greatest joy lies not in simply being, but in becoming. - Oprah Winfrey

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. - Emily Dickinson

Surely there can be no greater joy than that of saving souls. - Lottie Moon

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings. - JRR Tolkien

By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. - Unknown

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. - Leo Buscaglia

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. - Fiona Shaw

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved. - Michael Ende

What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude. - Annie Dillard

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. - Arnold H Glasow

I took a physical for some life insurance. All they would give me was fire and theft. - Milton Berle

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough, but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever. - Garrison Keillor

Don't postpone joy until you've learned all your lessons. Joy is your lesson. - Alan Cohen

Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it. - Orison Swett Marden

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. - Marianne Williamson

When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water. - Unknown

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. - Helen Keller

Trials function like a fire that burns off every impurity impeding our progress towards holiness. - David Jeremiah

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. - William Butler Yeats

You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground. - Unknown

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. - Elbert Hubbard

The fire of the diamond of true identity is always there; it just needs the Master's crafting to reveal it. - Kenneth G Mills

The ideals which have always shown before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty and truth. - Albert Einstein

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. - Pearl S Buck

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. - William Blake

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. - Eleanor Roosevelt

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. - Margaret Atwood

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before. - Stephen Hawking

Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living. - Unknown

To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame. - Sandra L. Douglas