“Unattainability. The most intense joy lies not in the having, but in the desiring. The delight that never fades, the bliss that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Wisdom, ambition, sadness, joy, malice, grief, amazement, all the emotions which blaze within the human soul may be recorded on a page.… — Tanigawa Nagaru Copy Share Image
O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Dear brethren, this is exactly what we have to do, we have to pawn the present for the future. We must be… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Then… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Stella, the only planet of my light, Light of my life, and life of my desire, Chief good, whereto my hope doth… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“When you begin to surrender control and let God fill you with His love, with renewed purpose, and with a conscience at… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected. When you feel inspired you find yourself thrust into a world… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Why do I lunge for control instead of joy?...do I thin Jesus grace too impotent to give me the full life...Whenever I… — Ann Voscamp Copy Share Image
Above all else, be true to your heart. When you marry, whether it be a marquis or an estate manager (or both!),… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Again, I call to mind that distant moment in [the prison at] Hermanice when on a hot, cloudless summer day, I sat… — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, a lot of people. I never had that.… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world. Somebody out there can use your help today. Are you… — Farshad Asl Copy Share Image
Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When I speak elsewhere in the book of the multifaceted joys of the resurrected life in the new universe, some readers may… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Good cheer is a state of mind or mood that promotes happiness or joy... With God’s help, good cheer permits us to… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
With three of my own children, I have witnessed first-hand the vital role reading has played as part of their childhood and… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
A blind man. I can stare at him ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it? No, he is in a great solitude.… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Things get better when Joy hears about a televised way to sell products and makes a connection with QVC. She convinces an… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate;… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Find joy in the faces of children who view life as so magical. Give thanks every day for your life and for… — James A. Murphy Copy Share Image
“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Although my parents were kind and loving, I had none of the joys, or the companionship, which small children usually have. From… — John George Haigh Copy Share Image
“Love is the path, and love is the goal. Love is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. Love… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness,… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder) I wrote to myself recently. Live in your… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“It is always good to have friends. Friends may be considered as part of the family because you have created and unbreakable… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
“I don't know what being god must feel like, but it can't be much different that being an inventor. There is power… — Soumeet Lanka Copy Share Image
Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When… — Joanna Southcott Copy Share Image
“Our outer relationships are a mirror of the relationship and communication between our own inner male and female sides. Our outer relationships… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Happy, Muriel? No, not happy. Your aim is wrong. There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
“My love and my joy, if I die from illness, madness or sadness, if before the time allotted me by fate is… — Sasha Sokolov Copy Share Image
Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours… — George Eliot Copy Share Image