None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David ThoreauRead
A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.
Interpretation
A journal serves as a repository for your positive experiences and gratitude.
This quote by Henry David Thoreau emphasizes the importance of keeping a journal as a means to document and reflect on the joyful moments and feelings of gratitude in one's life. By recording these experiences, individuals can cultivate a deeper appreciation for life and enhance their overall happiness.
In practice
In a motivational speech about finding joy in everyday life.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.
As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.
That grand old poem called Winter
I have learnt that gardens are like happiness: you cannot pursue them as an absolute thing or moment.
If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Donβt just wait for a man to come along. Thatβs the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.
Happy. And then I got afraid that it would vanish as quickly as it came. That it was accidental-- that I didn't deserve it. It's like this very, very nice car crash that never ends.
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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