The Art of Living Joyfully - Book Review

A guide to joy while you're going through life's trials. (This book has 190 pages). ...................... Words of wisdom from practical visionaries.... The Psalmist shares in Psalm 1:1-3 "The happiness of the godly, and Psalm 1:3 "wait on your season." .................................. Words of wisdom from practical visionaries: .......................... Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us... Rabbi David Wolpe ....... God can dream a bigger dream for you than you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let your self be released to it....... Oprah Winfrey .................................... There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem... Booker T. Washington ..................................... I love the challenge of starting at zero everyday and seeing how much I can accomplish..... Martha Stewart ....................................... It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness... Charles Spurgeon ..................................... Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.... Benjamin Spock ............. The poets are only the intrepreters of God... Socrates .......................... Everyone has got it in him, if he will only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities. There is no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us... Charles Schwab ..... If you can walk, you can dance.... Zimbabwean Saying .............................. God gave burdens, also shoulders.... Jewish Saying ....................... Get down on your knees and thank God you are on your feet... Irish Saying ............ The family with an old person in it possess a jewel.... Chinese Saying ............. Peace, like charity, begins at home... Franklin D. Roosevelt ................... The only question with wealth is what we do with it... John D. Rockfeller, Jr. ...... Every new day begins with possibilties. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace... Ronald Reagan .............................. This is the day the Lord had made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.... Psalm 118:24 ......................... When a man is gloomy, everything seems to go wrong, when he is cheerful, everything seems right! .............. Proverbs 15:15 ................. He who smiles rather than rages s always stronger... Japanese Proverbs .......... May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart... Eskimo Proverb ..................................... Musicial training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul... Plato ............ Sometimes when you have everything you can't really tell what matters... Christian Onassis ............................ It is not what we do, it is how much love we put in the doing... Mother Teressa ..... Ask, and it shall be given you, seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opend unto you. For everyone that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.... Matthew 7:7-8 ...................... We worn born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in every one.... Nelson Mandela ........................... Music is the universal language of mankind... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ......... I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be... Abraham Lincoln ........................ Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself... Leviticus 19:18 ............... When we can laugh through our tears, we are being given a powerful message. Things may be bad, but they cannot be all that bad.... Allen Klein ................ You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution... Robert F. Kennedy ............... Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own... John F. Kennedy ............ The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.... Helen Keller ....................................... The whole world is my family... Pope John XXIII .............................. Prosperity is just around the corner... Herbert Hoover ..................... Love is he master key which opens the gates of happiness... Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. ............................. Find the good - and praise it... Alex Haley ................................... Millions of angels are at God's command... Billy Graham .......................... Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion... Benjamin Franklin ............... I believe that God is managing affairs and tat He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end... Henry Ford ............................. Most people like praise ... When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves... Joseph Farrell ...................... The only way to have a friend is to be a one... Ralph Waldo Emerson ....... I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.... Duke Ellington ... Every baby born in to the world is a finer one than the last... Charles Dickens ..... Love... binds everything together in perfect harmony... Colossians 3:14 .......... There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.. George Washington Carver ............................. God answers all our prayers. .............. Sometimes the answer is yes. ............................ Sometimes the answer is no.... Jimmy Carter ......................... Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things.... Dale Carnegie ............................... Believe in something larger than yourself... Barbara Bush .................... May the blessing of light be on you, light without and light within. May the blessed sunshine shine on you and warm your heart till it glows like a great peat fire, so that the stranger may come and warm himself at it, and also a friend... Irish Blessing ................... God does not ask your ability, or your inability. He asks only your availability... Mary Kay Ash .................................. In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous... Aristotle .......... God is love... I John 4:8 ......................... Faith is the evidence of things not seen... Hebrews 11:1 ........................... Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's spirit dwells within you? .... I Corinthians 3:16 ................................... God dwells wherever man lets Him in... Jewish Saying ......................... Allen Klein is an award-winning professional speaker and bestselling author. He is a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Applied & Therapeutic Humor, a Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association, a Communication & Leadership Award from Toastmasters International, & an inductee into the Hunter College, New York City, Hall of Fame. He is the world's only Certified Jollytologist@ earning a Master's Degree from St. Mary's College in humor. He has worked in television production, designing children's television shows at CBS, including Captain Kangaroo. He lives and writes in San Francisco.