Covert Joy
I love words, images, and music that stir the heart and soul. This space is a collection of quotes, images, music, and poetry I’ve discovered across the web—each one moving me in its own way. I claim no credit for any content unless otherwise noted. These pieces were found on various platforms including Pinterest, Facebook, Google, and other online sources. If any content shared here belongs to you and you would prefer it not be included, please contact me and it will be removed. ♬ ♬ -▲= ♬
Thursday, August 6, 2026
Four Native American Indian Spirituality Laws
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Words to Remember
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
A dozen Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes
1. One should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
2. If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
3. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
4. If I love you, what business is it of yours?
5. No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.
6. This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
7. When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and they've lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.
8. If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
9. Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
10. A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him.
11.Anything you can do, or dream you do, begin it: boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
12. In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. ... In the real world, all rests on perseverance.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Monday, August 3, 2026
Silver Linings
Sunday, August 2, 2026
Saturday, August 1, 2026
Your soul is ageless
Friday, July 31, 2026
Home ~ Edgar Albert Guest
The road to laughter beckons me,
The road to all that's best;
The home road where I nightly see
The castle of my rest;
The path where all is fine and fair,
And little children run,
For love and joy are waiting there
As soon as day is done.
There is no rich reward of fame
That can compare with this:
At home I wear an honest name,
My lips are fit to kiss.
At home I'm always brave and strong,
And with the setting sun
They find no trace of shame or wrong
In anything I've done.
There shine the eyes that only see
The good I've tried to do;
They think me what I'd like to be;
They know that I am true.
And whether I have lost my fight
Or whether I have won,
I find a faith that I've been right
As soon as day is done.





