As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh!… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
Thank God for another day, and especially for giving me joy to have made a great start and a beautiful goal! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Nothing in all the world is so good as the knowledge and love of Christ, and no pleasure that can be enjoyed… — Susan Warner Copy Share Image
I think once you recognize the unconditional love of an Almighty, it tends to put joy in your heart. Which in my… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Life is hard, unfair, painful. But life is also guaranteed - one hundred percent, no doubt, no question - to offer unexpected… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was… — Brian Kolodiejchuk Copy Share Image
“We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was… — Fanny Howe Copy Share Image
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
We have not wondered enough at the delights God has given us to appreciate them, and be good stewards. We have overworked… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It has worked great good in other communities in the state where it has been honestly and faithfully tried, and I feel… — Thomas Jordan Jarvis Copy Share Image
“The superhuman task of transforming present society into a state of peace and joy requires more than ordinary human power; if God… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The only thing that keeps us from a place of joy is an illusion, the illusion of fear.” — Molly Friedenfeld Copy Share Image
Thinking to myself-self, and I SAY! a thing of beauty is a joy forever, Let your joy be my joy!!! — Young Dovey Copy Share Image
Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all… — Archilochus Copy Share Image
There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a… — Drew Houston Copy Share Image
Wishing you the joy of family, the gift of friends and the best of everything for the New Year. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dear God, please bless this Christmas season with peace, joy, non-violence and love. May the happiness of Baby Jesus' coming be felt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like my joy in life has intensified, (and) my compassion for people has just strengthened. I have compassion that I… — Lauren Scruggs Copy Share Image
Live in joy and love even among those who hate; live in joy and peace even among the troubled. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
Eventually, you have to stop picking a fight with your true nature and decide to seek the joy that underlies it all. — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly… — George Muller Copy Share Image
If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy. — John Oates Copy Share Image
Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
A car for the people, an affordable Volkswagen, would bring great joy to the masses and the problems of building such a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin,… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
I really do enjoy accompanying people - it's a challenge and a joy when you get it right. — McCoy Tyner Copy Share Image
