The more I think about the human suffering in our world and my desire to offer a healing response, the more I… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“It's not about getting by. It's about the stack of tiny little moments of joy and love that add up to a… — C. Robert Cargill Copy Share Image
“I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“…I have a feeling of being at home when I am with Sien, a feeling that she gives me my own hearth,… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less,… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
How kind is our Sacramental Jesus! He welcomes you at any hour of the day or night. His Love never knows rest.… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
“...An ethnically heterogeneous society without a unifying hero is bound to be torn apart by internal strife. Only a man capable of… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Accept your dark side, understanding it will help you to move with the light. Knowing both sides of our souls, helps us… — Martin R. Lemieux Copy Share Image
It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill.… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“Desire I think has less to do with possession than with participation, the will to involve oneself in the body of the… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“...when Maggie became conscious that she was the person he sought, she felt, in spite of all the thought that had gone… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No,… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
If you live on the level of the Body and the Individual, you will get entangled in food, fun and frolic, ease,… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Becoming an actor has really helped me as a human being. The joys in my life I feel are more joyful, and… — James Preston Rogers Copy Share Image
All we can do as women is make the best decisions for us. And that includes everything from how you look to… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“There's beauty and darkness in everything: Sorrow in joy, life in death, throns on the roses. You can't escape pain and torment… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“the believers in China exhibited a constant joyfulness in the midst of harsh circumstances. I never heard them deny or down-play the… — Nik Ripken Copy Share Image
Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy… — Shaw Neilson Copy Share Image
Every child has a right to know how to achieve control of his body in order that he may use it to… — Margaret H'Doubler Copy Share Image
We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“Connie went slowly home to Wragby. 'Home!'...it was a warm word to use for that great, weary warren. But then it was… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“We grow crisp and crotchety, fully half our organs ignore our commands--whistling to themselves, as it were, while we struggle to bring… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Now here it was after all, preserved by some considerate hand with varnisch and wax. Preserved along with it, like stale air… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the tradition of Julian of Norwich and St. Teresa of Avila and all the other mystics, we can learn to render… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily lives we can smile, if we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
