Imagine your mind as a door and make sure never open that door to any low feelings or sad thoughts. You have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When you're talking about truth and love, you can wield your profession, your craft, in a way that hurts people because you're… — Josh Garrels Copy Share Image
A lot of our scripts are based on this question of 'What is our responsibility to each other?' 'What are we meant… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
“She had thought often of Ada's words about inventing new endings to stories and choosing joy over sorrow. In recent years she… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
“Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
Earthly joy can take but a bat-like flight, always checked, always limited, in dusk and darkness. But the love of Christ breaks… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the… — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share Image
The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Our deepest aspiration is to love and to be loved. Are not the wounds inflicted by love the ones that hurt us… — Meicee Copy Share Image
When you die, you graduate. I don't worry about death. Sickness teaches there is joy in everything. Take joy in your sickness… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The devil puts before us every sort of thing we could want or desire. Our longing is pulled away from the things… — Bryan Wolfmueller Copy Share Image
I always had that joy of the game in my eyes everywhere I played, because it was the best thing, but Brescia… — Roberto Baggio Copy Share Image
Mystical bliss, joy and rapture are part of both yoga and vipassana. When the mind is concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, free from… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Joy said she hadn't really understood the meaning of life until Tyffanie had come along, but now she understood it perfectly. Well,… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy… — Pearl Primus Copy Share Image
The silence of landscape conceals vast presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality. With complete attention, landscape… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“The joy of victory isn't nearly as strong as the despair you experience in defeat, and those happy feelings after winning are… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
“If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
My first breath was just...it just seemed impossible that you could actually breathe underwater. I knew in my mind it was possible,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Solitude delighteth well to feed on many thoughts; There as thou sittest peaceful, communing with fancy, The precious poetry of life shall… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness allows you to face the past with courage, whether it is scarred with pain or caressed with joy, and it gently… — Deborah A. Beasley Copy Share Image
“How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“…in joy he will invariably dance; when he is in love he will dance, for the czardas helps him to explain to… — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so - that it is fundamentally alien… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
“We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
“I lead a bitter life, devoid of all external joy and in which I have nothing to keep me going but a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When you do laugh, open your mouth wide enough for the noise to get out without squealing, throw your head back as… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore,… — Orlando Gibbons Copy Share Image
