“As we get older, we define happiness less in terms of excitement and more in terms of peacefulness. Reverend Veronica Goines sums… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting moment in time, to fully engage… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Any tiniest feeling, which fills you with peace and joy can grow to the size of a mountain, when you act on… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
Belong purportedly to certain groups say, "We are the people and not the others." That is something that we cannot allow to… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Instead of viewing God as one who helps me accomplish my purposes, it is now my joy to help God accomplish the… — Philip Gulley Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, I have loved snow and ice. As a result, I have spent most of my… — Lonnie Dupre Copy Share Image
God made the forests, the tiny stars, and the wild winds-and I think that he made them partly as a balance for… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“If I do not feel a sense of joy in God's creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the idea of duty, are things that, when in error, can turn hideous, but – even though hideous… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Great joys,why do they bring us sadness? Because there remains from these excesses only a feeling of irrevocable loss and desertion which… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
If you are not radiant with joy and friendliness, if you are not filled to overflowing with love and goodwill for all… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like… — Susanna Tamaro Copy Share Image
Who is the winner? Not he who wins but he who has established his cheerful oneness with the result, which is an… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in… — Robert Genn 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
If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Once I became an adult and started to pursue writing as a professional career, I realized my main characters were always young… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The loving parts of your personality are content, grateful, patient, appreciative, caring, and more. They are interested in others. They do not… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For me, everything is about Jesus and Father and the Holy Spirit, and relationships, and life is an adventure of faith lived… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Keep Giving Jesus to the people, not by words but by your example, by being in love with Jesus, by radiating holiness… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness,… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate; He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the… — Ernest Thayer Copy Share Image
“Animation. Enthusiasm. Sincerity. Excitement. Acceptance. Have I just described your family dog? You’re happy to see him because he is so happy… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“We feel Divine Love entering us firstly through gentle, soft, humbling, kind and loving feelings, independent of any other person. This can… — Padma Aon Prakasha Copy Share Image
The door to Me I've entered many doors in my lifetime, but no door is like the door of Me. This was… — Tracy Mabinton Copy Share Image
We seek fulfillment in our lives through heart connection with others. This is our soul's essence of joy, which spontaneously pulses through… — John Friend Copy Share Image
“Honestly, I don’t understand how someone so great came out of something so terrible. It’s like she hasn’t had any chance to… — Laurel Snyder Copy Share Image
“For a second something deep and old rises inside me and I could fall on the ground and weep for joy, or… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so… — Minnie Pearl Copy Share Image