I wanted to show that women could run, but I also wanted to kind of inspire the idea that ordinary people can… — Bobbi Gibb Copy Share Image
“The delight in the moment and the gay façade become an excuse for absolving the listener from the thought of the whole,… — Adorno Copy Share Image
Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4).… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
“I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work.… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty… — Eleanor Farjeon Copy Share Image
So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield,… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Grace does not demonize our desires nor destroy them nor lead us to deny them. Grace is the work of the Holy… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
“Let the sky celebrate! Let it pour some rain to wash away the past years' grief. Let the fireworks speak announcing a… — Noha Alaa El-Din Copy Share Image
Because I have a heart for God I also have a heart for women. As I hear their stories, I realize so… — Jill Briscoe Copy Share Image
At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Great gift-giving involves three things: you feel what the other feels; you give freely; and you count sacrifice a bargain… those gifts… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return.… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
“I think the idea of simply "enduring to the end" is a terrible philosophy and an awful way to live one's life.… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
God. I just want to thank YOU for filling my life with joy and peace, I want to thank YOU for blessing… — Unkown Copy Share Image
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. But The right mental attitude… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Love is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself. Love is overflowing joy. Love is when you have seen… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
I can see in your eyes that there’s no seam of untapped joy left in you. The best of life has come… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The sun is a huntress young, The sun is a red, red joy, The sun is an Indian girl, Of the tribe… — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
Chime out, thou little song of Spring, Float in the blue skies ravishing. Thy song-of-life a joy doth bring That's sweet, albeit… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
“In the common walks of life, with what delightful emotions does the youthful mind look forward to some anticipated scene of festivity!… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My favorite part about being a father is playing toys with them, or watching movies with them, really just playing around with… — Derrick Favors Copy Share Image
Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We have the promises of God as thick as daisies in summer meadows, that death, which men most fear, shall be to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What truly gives me joy is when I get a letter from a young woman who says they saw a programme, then… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
“Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Raymond Hendler exhibited a group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised… — Dore Ashton Copy Share Image
“If one adopts an attitude that constantly sees life as a gift, then naturally a feeling of thanksgiving emerges out of oneself,… — Ryōjun Shionuma Copy Share Image
“All this holiday cheer Heaven knows where it goes But it returns every year And though this winter does nothing but storm… — Owl City Copy Share Image
O what their joy and their glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see! crowns for the valiant, for weary… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
I got sick and tired of a joyless existence, and so have thought a lot in the past few years about how… — M. J. Ryan Copy Share Image
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
