When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People can be happy while they are going through great pain and adversity. There's no pleasure evident in their external lives yet… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster:… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
“Each new kitten and puppy, with a fresh and fragile look on life, inspired joy and awe, and though the death of… — Elisabeth Voltz Copy Share Image
The death, and the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus happened over three days. Friday was the day of suffering and pain… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Our people know that if they are sick, we will take care of them. If there are occasions of grief or joy,… — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
“Say, doth she weep for very wantonness? Or is it that she dimly doth foresee Across her youth the joys grow less… — Ernest Dowson Copy Share Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“Joy imagines a fetus in handcuffs. Policemen on either side of it, leading it to its death, strapping it into a toaster-sized… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
Once you can open yourself to joy, you feel as if you've transformed your sadness into illumination, which is really all that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy.… — Jean-Baptiste Biot Copy Share Image
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.. Put yourself in a… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
God gives us what we want. For people who want nothing to do with peace, joy, reconciliation and peace... God will give… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
What others think of us is not our concern - it is their concern... It is important only that we radiate life.… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at… — Andre Agassi 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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 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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
