“Delight is God’s why behind the justice, righteousness, and steadfast love He practices. It’s not out of frustration or obligation, but delight.” — Jessica Nicholas Copy Share Image
If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy. — Rumi Copy Share Image
It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow from which to distinguish the… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Books that nourish the lonely hearts…as they make a song in desolate times…they build a house to take you in when the… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
“Lullaby For the Cat Minnow, go to sleep and dream, Close your great big eyes; Round your bed Events prepare The pleasantest… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
When 'Joy Luck Club' came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk… — Lauren Tom Copy Share Image
People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“This was the joy that the world sought--sacred and pagan all at once. A union between two dissimilars into a seamless one.… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
Your lips, delicate and yielding, yet warm and soggy, brush against mine, temporarily from the beginning and after that with a solidness… — Cazz Copy Share Image
The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
As I get older I realize how short & sometimes difficult life is & if you are not adding to my joy… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only...from human relationships. God has placed it all around us...and all you have to… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“in terror. I believe that Satan cannot bear to hear the sound of God’s people laughing. Godly joy is one of our… — Surprise Sithole Copy Share Image
Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“We want to find that special joy, “that no one can take from us,” which comes from having a sense of Mission… — Richard N. Bolles Copy Share Image
She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that God infuses… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
I don't do something I won't enjoy just for the money. I do it for the fun, for the joy of working. — Benny Hill Copy Share Image
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight? — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy. — Paul Reps Copy Share Image
In this world of heartache and tears, if you find someone who brings joy to your heart and makes life worth living,… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Making a difference - and allowing God to use your gifts to change someone else's life - is truly the greatest joy… — Ainsley Earhardt Copy Share Image
Participating in a sisterhood with other women is hugely important in my life and a source of joy. — Christy Turlington Copy Share Image
“The purest joys are available to all of us, and they're unrelated to status, recognition, or material desires.” — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
“It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people… — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
“Today is the day you choose to find joy, fulfillment and the path that will make your heart sing. It's your choice,… — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
“you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
