“The expression Jake saw on all the faces, oldest to youngest, was the same: pure joy. Not just that, he thought, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you're a musician and you come from a singing background, specifically one that focused a lot on a cappella music as… — Nick Lachey Copy Share Image
I’ve been married for 29 years. My marriage has been the greatest joy of my life. There is nothing conservative about denying… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
You cannot judge the value of a life by its quantity. It is by the joy that you are feeling. The more… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“As time passes, I am glad to have more days of the tide coming in and bringing joy and hope and laughter… — Pam K. McCarty Copy Share Image
Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
When there is love, there is no duty. When you love your wife, you share everything with her-your property, your trouble, your… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“It's said that great sorrow is no more than a reflection of one's capacity for great joy. I see it from the… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say… — John Green Copy Share Image
...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“When both the inner man and woman takes responsibility for themselves and lives their own truth, a joy and love begins to… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Life seeks life and loves life. The opening of a catkin of a willow, in the flight of the butterfly, in the… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
The studio is really fun because I don't make it into the studio unless I've got something I really like. I love… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
Meditation is basically the process of witnessing: looking from your centre all that is happening. Many things are happening on the outside… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In that Holy Place where you tell Him everything and he understands; there are angels who stand in wait to hear his… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
..the real world's all we've got. Believers in the supernatural claim to have special wisdom about the world. But real wisdom means… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
God is good. He is eager to forgive. He wants us to perfect ourselves and maintain control of ourselves. He does not… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated.… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
“I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
My interest in culture generally is a comparative one, and I think that's where the word joy, I think, can be applicable.… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Life is a collection of memories, pain, tears, joy and laughter. The most treasured can be locked in your heart for safe-keeping… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The other side of... pain is joy... control is freedom... sadness is happiness... chaos is calmness... individuality is community... hate is Love...… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk,… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Silence is bringing you back home, and it gives you that much needed energy to realize 'Who You Are', to realize that… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“Many people look at their past and bemoan their mistakes. Those errors in judgment, behavior, hurting others, and the wrong decisions may… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think all the songs [at Moth] are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole,… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you needwhen you can… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“But this pleasure was not unalloyed with pain, and it seemed as if the universal joy of the awakening world could now… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image