Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very… — Madeline Kahn Copy Share Image
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
There is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no testing--that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
“We only suffer when we falsely identify with the objects that arise in our awareness, rather than with the awareness itself—when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
All creativity is a deep suffering, unless your creativity does not come out of the mind, but out of meditation. When it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you're on stage and the stars are aligned and the audience is as one and you're guiding them, steering them... It's… — Michael Ball Copy Share Image
Being in love isn't the only way of loving. I realized with all my being that if you loved somebody- it didn't… — Sayo Masuda Copy Share Image
All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: Turbid ardors and vain joys Not… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Real joy and happiness come from living in such a way that our Heavenly Father will be pleased with us. ... One… — W. Eugene Hansen Copy Share Image
“The tears of joy someone sheds because of you, are the only holy water to build the world anew.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I learned that gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
“When the sun riseth first, the beams over-gild the tops of green mountains that look toward the east, and the world cannot… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
We're all attracted to the perfume of fermenting joy, we've all tried to start a fire, and one day maybe it will… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
Before I go on selling the joy of working with your spouse, I should make something clear: Although we have a great… — Christa Miller Copy Share Image
When J.J. [Abrams] called Lisa [Joy] and myself, he pitched us this idea of, what if we turn the structure around and… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
You hear stories about me beating my brains out practicing, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn't wait to… — Ben Hogan Copy Share Image
“Complaint" They call me and I go. It is a frozen road past midnight, a dust of snow caught in the rigid… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success. — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I am so grateful for my beautiful life. I am cherished and loved. And I share my love and joy with everyone. — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
I felt, as a lawyer, when I was mentoring and working with kids, that I gained a level of groundedness that I… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has become too… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I'm having a ball on 'Glee.' It's a joy to be working there - the whole cast is so talented. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.” — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image