“Joy, I realized, isn't so much a circumstance you find yourself in but a choice you make” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“To both the racist and the puritan, childhood is not a time of life that we grow out of, as the life… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
“The morning sun brings tender joy With happiness awakes the earth; The dew kissed flowers it's light employ Their petals open in… — Paul Thompson Copy Share Image
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
I'll keep this as nonpartisan and diplomatic as possible - but for those of us whose heads are kind of spinning off… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
“My people are in the world again. No sorrow will live in me as long as that joy—save one, and I thank… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
There is no true joy in a life lived closed up in the little shell of the self. When you take one… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“Our willingness to suffer for Him takes away fear and instills the blessed joy.” — Rochunga Pudaite Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, home happiness depends on the wife. Her spirit gives the home its atmosphere. Her hands fashion its beauty.… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
“...the state of perfection is an elusive goal; demanding something so obscure as almost unattainable and can become a compulsive, crazy making… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
I will light candles this Christmas, Candles of joy, despite all sadness, Candles of hope where despair keeps watch. Candles of courage… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a 'happy Christian.' Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. — William Blake Copy Share Image