“Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24) — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love,… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
You don't need a scale to tell you whether you're allowed to like yourself today. You are. You belong here. No matter… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell sour annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many… — Laura Osnes Copy Share Image
You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she sat against the wall, longing for the warm finger of paint to wander just once more down the side of… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with.… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
“He valued these experiences of joy more than anything else he had known, and he desired, as all who have experienced them… — George Sayer Copy Share Image
Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him,… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played… — Carre Otis Copy Share Image
The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples. — John Piper Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Chanukah. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
You know what? Joy is the only guide. I'm going to have fun regardless. — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“Colored by a pure love, stay the night, and next day wake me with delight.” — Kipyang Copy Share Image
Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness. — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire. — John Wesley Copy Share Image