HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
If you would have clear and irrefragable for a perpetual joy, a glory and a defense, the unwavering confidence, "I am Thy… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Over the years I have come to believe that life is full of unchosen circumstances, that being human has to do with… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The amazing thing about love and attention and encouragement and grace and success and joy is that these things are infinite. We… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Now, remember: they're not for eating, but for listening, because you'll often be hungry for sounds as well as food. Here are… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have been oriented that you must pay a price in order to get somewhere, and in the process, you've come to… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the joy is not complete until it is expressed. It is not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Rarely, rarely comest thou, Spirit of Delight! Wherefore hast thou left me now Many a day and night? Many a weary night… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Doing a route at the absolute limit of the possible demands and encourages a coordination of all peripheral factors. It is, at… — Wolfgang Gullich Copy Share Image
“So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That’s all right, I wasn’t waiting. I was… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue,… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
We have failed...through our lack of responsible awareness...and thus added to suffering around the world. All of us are cripples-some physically, some… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. There's fennel for you, and columbines:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm… — John Piper Copy Share Image
It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think what people really want is fiction that in some tiny way makes their life more meaningful and makes the world… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining the Blessed Virgin Mary, having a lot of love is more important than having a lot of… — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled… — Molly Friedenfeld Copy Share Image
I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual,… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Obeying her silent demand, he fused their hips together in a tight, deeply satisfying grinding motion that shot through her like a… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply… — Kay Warren Copy Share Image
Blessed are You, who lights the world with happiness and contentment, love and companionship, peace and friendship, bridegroom and bride. Let the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dullness is more than a religious issue, it is a cultural issue. Our entire culture has become dull. Dullness is the absence… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
“You will remember it as having been a moment of intense and complete joy. Look to that moment. You will know when… — Laurie E. Smith Copy Share Image
