To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Today is the great day of one of the revelations of this world. The interrelationships of these individual realms were illumined as… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
And though I've lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made,… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Empowered Women 101: A confident woman doesn't have to talk a man into loving her. He either loves her completely, not enough… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
[I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time-not tomorrow, nor next year, nor in some future life after we… — Thomas Dreier Copy Share Image
People are actually very good at being communists in the sense that they instantly abandon capitalism, that they love these relationships of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I don't think the role of style is different for a woman of any age. Style, to me, is about experimenting with… — Elizabeth Heyert Copy Share Image
Play is a universal language. It gives a sense of joy in being alive. It is one of the healthiest things we… — Louise Hart Copy Share Image
I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Planning is the only way to keep yourself on track. Plan your moments to be joyous. Plan your days to be filled… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Christ can be trusted to keep His Word that He will exchange our drab existence for joyous living, abundant life! And while… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the… — Charles Fillmore Copy Share Image
There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Oh! how great and glorious a thing it is to have before one the Word of God! With that we may at… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white, So full of gladness and so full of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything wrong in being an entertainer because if at the end of the day people want to forget… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over.… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of… — Samuel George Morton Copy Share Image
Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about the carefree flinging of your body to great… — Alison Brie Copy Share Image
She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I want to write and direct, but I don't think if I did it for 100 years I would ever come close… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
These aren't joyous times when we have war in Iraq. These are challenging times, and they're difficult times, and they're straining the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image