Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
Bear sorrows for the sake of the Heavenly Kingdom. Without sorrows there is no salvation. On the other hand, the Kingdom of… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
“A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;‘ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a perpetual rack,… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being… — Barbara W. Winder Copy Share Image
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I don't care about having a legacy, I don't care about being remembered. The most important thing to me is, while we're… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Writing might be unalloyed joy, were it not for the fact that power is always shadowed by responsibility. Thankfully, the absolute power… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“At the Oceana Apartments, he recollects leaving England in triumph, infused with a joy he has not felt in many years. England… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“Too many people drag through the day with long faces. Some don’t smile for months. Then they’ll come up with those same… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Thankfulness is not something God gives us. It is not a spiritual gift and it is not a spiritual fruit. We can… — Roy Lessin Copy Share Image
My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth… — John Adams Copy Share Image
One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your lips, delicate and yielding, yet warm and soggy, brush against mine, temporarily from the beginning and after that with a solidness… — Cazz Copy Share Image
The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Say "yes" to life! "Yes" to wonder, to joy, to despair. "Yes" to pain, "yes" to what you don't understand. Try "yes."… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“This was the joy that the world sought--sacred and pagan all at once. A union between two dissimilars into a seamless one.… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
“Lullaby For the Cat Minnow, go to sleep and dream, Close your great big eyes; Round your bed Events prepare The pleasantest… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
When 'Joy Luck Club' came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk… — Lauren Tom Copy Share Image
“Books that nourish the lonely hearts…as they make a song in desolate times…they build a house to take you in when the… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losing and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I certainly don't delude myself that there aren't certainly more important things to do in life than make people laugh, but I… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy… — Gavyn Davies Copy Share Image
We should, to begin with, think that God leads a very interesting life, and that he is full of joy. Undoubtedly he… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
If a wave of service sweeps over the land, catching everyone in its enthusiasm, it will be able to wipe off the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen.… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
Joy and patience are far above our strength... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint...… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
After college, I went on to be a successful businessperson. But when I met with former state Sen. Ed Royce, who went… — Young Kim Copy Share Image
Do you know God? Do you know there is a power greater than ourselves which manifests itself within us as well as… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, when you're pregnant with the first one, it's great of course, all new and 'Yay!' With the second… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
