“We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has become too… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“I sat on the couch for a while as Augustus searched for his keys. His mom sat down next to me and… — John Green Copy Share Image
A feeling that greater possessions, no matter of what kind they may be, will of themselves bring contentment or happiness, is a… — Genevieve Behrend Copy Share Image
Even though you were never premeditated but I'm just filled with Joy that you arrived in my life, you know if I… — Sabelo Mkhomazi Copy Share Image
What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay? A breath one single gasp must puff away! A short-lived flower, that… — Alexander Brome Copy Share Image
I want to do everything, so when I started I wanted to be an actress, and I've always written funny things. I… — Ellie Taylor Copy Share Image
The very dull truth is that writing love scenes is the same as writing other scenes - your job is to be… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty… — Mitsugi Saotome Copy Share Image
What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the way is called culture. Before… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“I’m young and have many hidden qualities; I’m young and strong and living through a big adventure; I’m right in the middle… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“He was sitting in the midst of a children's party at Harold's Cross. His silent watchful manner had grown upon him and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has… — Joseph Rusling Meeker Copy Share Image
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Certainly Paul shares the view of the Old Testament prophets that God will one day flood the world with justice and joy… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The best news in the world is that there is no conflict between your greatest possible happiness and God's perfect holiness. Being… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“True humility derives from a proper perspective of our human condition: one among billions on a small planet among billions, like a… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“Then I thought of reading—the nice and subtle happiness of reading. This was enough, this joy not dulled by Age, this polite… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
For me, drawing is the greatest joy. Animation is never as good as when I'm sitting at that desk drawing. Even when… — Glen Keane Copy Share Image
As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.’ And I base… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“Instead of imposing new obligations, (Christians) should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Then, overcome by joy, I cried, 'Jesus, my love. At last I have found my vocation. My vocation is love. In the… — St. Thérèse de Lisieux Copy Share Image
“True spiritual virtues can have no opposite, but they can wear masks and costumes. Joy often masquerades as anger; innocence often dresses… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
But having more freedom she only became more profoundly aware of the big want. She wanted so many things. She wanted to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The wired feeling that started when I left my house has grown into a thrumming, crackling, electrical field. I want to kiss… — Hilary T. Smith Copy Share Image
The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
“The boldness and strength and happiness that were natural to me and to which I was denying their natural outlet refused to… — Katharine Butler Hathaway Copy Share Image
Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Feeling bad is not the problem. The problem is that we feel bad about feeling bad. Once you begin to let go… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“COMPASSIONATE AND LOVING FATHER, many people have material goods and success, but they still search for something that is real and lasting.… — Cheri Fuller Copy Share Image
“But nothing is permanent in this world. Joy in the second moment of its arrival is already less keen than in the… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
When Cynthia smiles, said young Bingo, the skies are blue; the world takes on a roseate hue; birds in the garden trill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
There is something wonderful about coming to terms with time - that it is finite. You want to have as much joy… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
“It is strange,' he said at last. 'I had longed to enter the world of men. Now I see it filled with… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
