Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“The world seems to want us to be sad and angry because bad things frequently happen. But I say we should feel… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Happiness can come in a single moment. And in a single moment it can go again. But a single moment does not… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
Food is a complicated subject for me. Food brings joy, satisfaction, and conflict. Eating disorders plague my family. Their consequences have been… — Myriam Gurba Copy Share Image
“You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I fear no longer being able to find glimmers of joy and hope in friends' weddings, the birth of children, the contours… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“One brain’s blueprint may promote joy more readily than most; in another, pessimism reigns. Whether happiness infuses or eludes a person depends,… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“The 'appetite for joy' which pervades all creation, that tremendous force which sways humanity to its purpose, as the ride sways the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“If joy is the aim and the core of existence, she thought, and if that which has the power to give one… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What sets these - and all - racers apart from less daredevilish mortals is their complete lack of fear and their joy… — Peter Golenbock Copy Share Image
A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
“Jason Mashak’s SALTY AS A LIP is grounded in a voice patiently bridging the “steeples and ‘scrapers” of an inquisitive mind. The… — James Ragan Copy Share Image
Another simple and powerful way to dissolve problems is not to dwell upon the outcome of your actions. Instead, learn to value… — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
“My plenteous joys, Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes, And you whose places are… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
The meditation that gives you immediate joy or continuous joy is the best meditation for you. Everyone will not have the same… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I write poems for children to help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world and to look at their lives… — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
Praying and living deeply, richly and fully have become for me almost indistinguishab le. Prayer is being present, sharing love, opening life… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later, however, we must realise there is no station in this life, no one earthly place to arrive once and… — Robert Hastings Copy Share Image
“Eventually, it boils down to two choices – do I wish to experience this physical reality primarily through joy or do I… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, expresses it this way: “To desire my joy is to desire the joy of the one I… — Wesley Hill Copy Share Image
I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on… — Clare B. Dunkle Copy Share Image
“Meditation is the basis of a life of splendid health, untiring energy, unfailing love, and abiding wisdom. It is the very foundation… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
We are all drawn to problems and solving problems. Joy doesn't demand our time. So we have to mark that time on… — Bonnie St. John Copy Share Image
Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another door in a person -… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too… — Paul Hamilton Hayne Copy Share Image
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Modern society seems to be a celebration of all the things that lead away from the Truth, make Truth hard to live… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or… — Dada Vaswani Copy Share Image
![“Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, expresses it this way: “To desire my joy is to desire the joy of the one I desire: my search for enjoyment through the…presence of another is a longing to be enjoyed…[Romantic] partners ‘admire’ in each other ‘the lineaments of gratified desire’. We are…” quote by Wesley Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d40/wesley-hill-47693_desire_rowan-williams-archbishop-of-canterbury_1096556.jpg)
