“The room was filled with deep, raucous sighs, sudden sobs, silent floods of tears. The horrified musician stopped,and going up to the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Physical beauty and ugliness is not very important. The real thing is the inner. I can teach you how to be beautiful… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“The things we try to avoid and fight against—tribulation, suffering, and persecution—are the very things that produce abundant joy in us. “We… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
God created us in joy and created us for joy, and in the long run not all the darkness there is in… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
..the real world's all we've got. Believers in the supernatural claim to have special wisdom about the world. But real wisdom means… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and… — William James Copy Share Image
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
though he found that if you are stupid enough to bury a camera underground you won't be taking many pictures with it… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Eternal God, this holy night is radiant with the brilliance of your one true light. May that light illuminate our hearts and… — Rev Richard J Fairchild Copy Share Image
We're going to do three things: teach-ins across the country so people can learn about each other's issues and causes; parties with… — Van Jones 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
Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment's suffering, but when we are surrendered… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Everyone knows how to love,because we are all born with that gift.Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I wrote a mad, passionate letter to the best restaurant in the UK, Le Gavroche in London, and asked if I could… — Paul Rankin Copy Share Image
Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Unless you have suffered and wept, you really don't understand what compassion is, nor can you give comfort to someone who is… — Takashi Nagai Copy Share Image
For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Dear brethren, this is exactly what we have to do, we have to pawn the present for the future. We must be… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible. Joy is always possible. Whenever, meaning—now; wherever, meaning—here. The holy grail… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.’ And I base… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was… — Frederic William Maitland Copy Share Image
I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Anne's horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen's; but if the path set… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“God left us the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity in the cloud, the oil… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
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