Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
At long last I have discovered that most shooters are not interested in firearms as tools, but rather as toys. Such people… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I'm sure I've lost a few jobs because I'm a Christian. That's irrelevant. I can honestly say that of everything I have,… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of education, genius means essentially 'giving birth to the joy in learning.' I'd like to suggest that this is… — Thomas Armstrong Copy Share Image
When we are mindful, we are deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“O something unprov’d! something in a trance! O madness amorous! O trembling! O to escape utterly from others’ anchors and holds! To… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
You'll never get used to the emotions that you feel. It's a mixture of fear, happiness, terror, joy, shame, embarrassment, pride -… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
“Augustine believed that even when you seem to be enjoying something else, God is the actual source of your joy. The thing… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“Well! what is there remarkable in all this? Why have I recorded it? Because, reader, it was important enough to give me… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“The thing that I was experiencing and dwelling on the entire time is that there are so many things that are not… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
“The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll’s frying-pan into his mouth, and was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“Do in after life the freshness and light-heartedness, the craving for love and for strength of faith, ever return which we experience… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Humans need to learn the lesson of acceptance when things seem to go awry, know that this is only temporary, your flow… — Sarah Rajkotwala Copy Share Image
I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this.… — Terri Clark Copy Share Image
“I'm actually very humbled listening to His Holiness,' the Archbishop said, 'because I've frequently mentioned to people the fact of his serenity… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
“Wherever there is harmony, joy is present. Wherever there is a feeling of harmony, happiness is found. Wherever there is unity, growth… — Patricio Telman Chincocolo Copy Share Image
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I can't give a formula for how to spread joy, but I know that the source of the joy is one's own… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
I always dug the stuff like the covered dish suppers because I could feel the fun and the joy of what church… — Edi Patterson Copy Share Image
The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and… — Folliott Sandford Pierpoint Copy Share Image
The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and… — Lloyd Dobyns Copy Share Image
The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
While some people are apprehensive that meditation may conflict with their beliefs, the usual experience is that it leads to a heightened… — Ian Gawler Copy Share Image
I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer,… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
There is no peace in Southern Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man, we must entertain each other in brotherly affection,… — John Winthrop Copy Share Image
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
