The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the…

We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and…

— Rob Bell

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and…

— Anonymous

I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I'm trying to write…

— Ian Doescher

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

— Nicholas Sparks

What truly gives me joy is when I get a letter from a young woman who says they saw a programme, then read a…

— Lucy Worsley

I don’t know, I don’t know that I’m missing anything. I just think too much sometimes. Sometimes I’m even happy because I’m so engaged…

— Jeff Buckley

So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively…

— Charles Darwin

When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle in the…

— Rory Block

By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it…

— Elizabeth Strout

It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged…

— William Faulkner

The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black…

— Mo Yan

Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we…

— Wendell Berry

I love to work in football, so for me it's not work. I'm not here first in the morning and last in the evening…

— Daniel Farke

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the…

— Karen Hawkins