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 am one of the lucky people in the world; I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.
I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too.
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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