You never enjoy the world aright,
till the sea itself floweth in your veins,
till you are clothed with the heavens,
and crowned with the stars:
and perceive yourself to be the sole heir
of the whole world.
-Thomas Traherne

We ought to dance with rapture
that we should be alive,
and in the flesh,
and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
-D. H. Lawrence

May your life be like a wild flower...
growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.
-Native American Proverb

Let your bloodstream sing.
-Chidvilasananda

The same stream of life
that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world
and dances in rhythmic measures.
-Rabindranath Tagore

I want to be alive
to all the life that is in my now,
to know each moment to the utmost.
-Kahlil Gibran

Give me the clear blue sky over my head,
and green turf beneath my feet,
and winding road before me...
I laugh, I run, I leap, I sing for joy...
I begin to feel, think, and be myself again.
-William Hazlitt

I get wildly enthusiastic about little things...
I play with leaves,
I skip down the street,
and run against the wind.
-Leo Buscaglia

Oh, the wild joys of living!
the leaping from rock to rock,
The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree,
the cool silver shock
Of the plunge in a pool's living water.
-Robert Browning

Rise and drink your bliss.
-William Blake

What is all this juice
And all this joy?
A strain of the earth's sweet being
in the beginning
In Eden garden.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins

...everything
which is natural
which is infinite
which is yes
-e e cummings

What I love is near at hand,
Always in earth and air.
-Theodore Roethke

The world is mud-luscious
and puddle wonderful.
-e e cummings

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky.
-William Wordsworth

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
-Jimi Hendrix

All that your deepest soul needs
is here for the taking -
Come, take, and be rich.
-Tukaram

The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Earth's crammed with heaven.
-Elizabeth Barret Browning

O amazement of things -
even the least particle!
-Walt Whitman

To see a World in a Grain of Sand,
And heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
-William Blake

The moment one gives
close attention to anything,
even a blade of grass,
it becomes a mysterious, awesome,
indescribably magnificent world unto itself.
-Henry Miller

There is nothing in the world more beautiful
than the forest clad to its very hollows in snow.
It is the still ecstasy of nature,
wherein every spray, every blade of grass,
every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig
is clad in radiance.
-William Sharp

Life is an ecstasy.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find ecstasy in living -
the mere sense of living
is joy enough.
-Emily Dickinson

I just want to celebrate another day of living;
I just want to celebrate another day of life!
-Glen Hughes

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colors;
let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
-Kahlil Gibran

Live in the sunshine,
swim in the sea,
drink the wild air's salubrity.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lighter than a cork
I danced on the waves.
-Arthur Rimbaud

Life delights in life.
-William Blake

Now I see the secret
of making the best persons,
It is to grow in the open air
and to eat and sleep with the earth.
-Walt Whitman

There lives the dearest freshness
deep down things.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins

This is a delicious evening
when the whole body is one sense,
and imbibes delight through every pore.
-Henry David Thoreau

Not the sun or the summer alone,
but every hour and season
yield its tribute of delight.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Energy is eternal delight.
-William Blake

There is so much in the world for us all
if we only have eyes to see it,
and the heart to love it,
and the hand to gather it to ourselves.
-Lucy Maud Montgomery

The grand show is eternal.
It is always sunrise somewhere;
the dew is never all dried at once;
a shower is ever falling;
vapor is ever rising;
Eternal sunrise; eternal sunset;
eternal dawn and gloaming,
on seas and continents and islands,
each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
-John Muir

The trees were budding,
the birds were singing - the grass was wet -
the whole earth was shining.
And suddenly I was the birds and the grass -
and there was no I at all.
-Kahlil Gibran