When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy?" he said softly. "Assuredly," she said, "provided one listens to the silence and… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“never had a gift but one, to know when the great wheel gives to a touch, to know and act. I had… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Life is a circle wherein, there is love. All are included embraced through Soul eyes Rainbows of light fill our hearts, when… — Ulonda Faye Copy Share Image
“Is this not the collector's exquisite pleasure, that his desire should know no bounds, should reach out into the infinite, should never… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“As Omnipotence is an ocean that cannot be fathomed, so the comforts from it are streams that cannot be exhausted. What joy… — William Symington Copy Share Image
On this special day, I wish you all the very best, all the joy you can ever have and may you be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jean Jacques Rousseauis nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
EACH DAY OF HUMAN life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy.… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
In friendship's fragrant garden, There are flowers of every hue. Each with its own fair beauty And its gift of joy for… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“True happiness is always self-forgetful: it loses itself in the object of its joy. As the joy of the Holy Ghost fills… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
We have a commitment to serve our Lord. We have an assurance that the cause is just and worthy. But, above all,… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“We are solitary creatures au fond. It hapens so rarely that one feels another understands. But when one does feel it, it's… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“What a joy walking is. All the cares of life, all the hopeless, inept fuckwits that God has strewn along the Bill… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“In Mexico, I first encountered the attitude that was missing from the optimistic sense of living in the United States: a tragic… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“{ Yogananda on the death of his dear friend, the eminent 20th century scientist, Luther Burbank } His heart was fathomlessly deep,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
To be able to celebrate life is religion. In that very celebration you come close to God. If one is able to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot,… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
If you know something bad is coming, can't you plan to avoid it or try to do something differently?" said Charles. Probably",… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
“Is there plenty of celebration in your life? How about your spiritual life? Is it an exercise in following rules and practices?… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
To enjoy anything, we cannot be attached to it. What we usually try to do is capture any joy that comes our… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
I think age is sometimes just a number. But it's a real joy. Young actors don't come with any of the baggage… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
“She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
I want to share my journey because I think God wants us to share our stories with one another - to show… — Jeremy Camp Copy Share Image