Redneck Fireplace

The soul is here for its own joy. - Rumi

Joy is not in things, it is in us. - Benjamin Franklin

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. - Karl Barth

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not. - Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. - Mother Teresa

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society. - Joe Biden

Find a joy you like and you add five days to every week. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half sorrow. - Swedish Proverb

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

You'll never be as lazy as whoever names the fireplace. - Unknown

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. - Buddha

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

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. - Unknown

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. - Jim Rohn

Sleeping is my drug; my bed is my dealer; and my alarm clock is the police. - Unknown

You know you're a redneck if your home has wheels and your car doesn't. - Jeff Foxworthy

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

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

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. - Steven Wright

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much. - William Shakespeare

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

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

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - Franklin P Jones

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace, and your soul in the joy of Christ. - Thomas Merton

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

I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me. - Mark Zuckerberg

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. - Bob Nelson

Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness. - Floyd W Tomkins

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

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out. - Dolly Parton

There was a fire at the main Inland Revenue office in London today, but it was put out before any serious good was done. - Ronnie Corbett

I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. - Hartman Jule

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. - Buddha

I have a microwave fireplace in my house... The other night I laid down in front of the fire for the evening in two minutes. - Steven Wright

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

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