“Less keen and lofty was the delight, but deeper and nearer to mortal heart; marvelous and yet not strange.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I am to provide these joys for her. I would rather have disapproval, I feel more worthy of it.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to smile. I try to bring happiness on and off the pitch. I don't understand how you can play football… — Santi Cazorla Copy Share Image
Whenever I see a celebrity that comes to watch me play, I'm going to do for them the same thing they've done… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
“We will shout for joy when you are victorious and will lift up our banners in the name of our God. May… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
La possession de ce qu'on aime est une joie plus grande encore que l'amour. Possessing what one loves is an even greater… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In Mexico, I first encountered the attitude that was missing from the optimistic sense of living in the United States: a tragic… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“We are solitary creatures au fond. It hapens so rarely that one feels another understands. But when one does feel it, it's… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
I think age is sometimes just a number. But it's a real joy. Young actors don't come with any of the baggage… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To enjoy anything, we cannot be attached to it. What we usually try to do is capture any joy that comes our… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and… — Swami Satchidananda Copy Share Image
God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my family.… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
“Luck plays no part in the divinity of the moment that is set to transpire and make two unite into one burning… — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Fear is as a result of drowning in discouragement; joy comes by wading in encouragement. EL” — Evinda Lepins Copy Share Image
I truly never saw myself doing anything other than music. There was nothing else that brought me this much joy, but also… — Bishop Briggs Copy Share Image
The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit. — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
I try to cope by doing what I do, what I find purpose and joy in. For me, that has been writing… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Material things can make you happy temporarily but emotional things can make you happy for a lifetime. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“♥♀♥ Let Us Nuture And Support Our *Girls* Of This World And Beyond!?! Because; As You Know, They Grow Up To Be… — Aisare NoMon Copy Share Image
The purpose of dharma is to help your mind to expand, to grow, to clarify. It should uphold us and create an… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“The joy that is of God is not opposed to earthly pleasures. Rather it infuses them with a foundation of meaning.” — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Be so full of love, so filled with joy, so illuminating, that others drown in darkness when not in your presence.” — Mekael Shane Copy Share Image
“and in those moments, it was your expression, more than your words, that always filled my heart with joy. With you, my… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight. — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Joy is a very high frequency current of energy with a great deal of energy content. Somebody who is joyful has a… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
