I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, he had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“If the doom of failure stifles some time the path of our life, it can pin us down like downtrodden aliens, while,… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“For most people there is a fascinating inconsistency in the position of St. Francis. He expressed in loftier and bolder language than… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
And I know you've spent a lifetime trying to protect me from the staggering pain of grief that comes from losing the… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Do I realy regret that night? That one moment of joy beyond compare – some people never experience it in a lifetime.… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Dear Friend, You are a like-minded folk, a peppy, merry & hearty being like a basket of joy, a podium of sharing,… — Lord Robin Copy Share Image
The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We… — Christo Copy Share Image
I know of nothing that brings greater joy to the human heart than laboring at home or abroad for the salvation of… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
“And then, amidst the joy that grips everyone, I meet your mysteriously mirthless gaze, wandering no one knows where, in some far-off… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
What we can do is to live out our lives as best we can with purpose, and love, and joy. We can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support… — Clark Moustakas Copy Share Image
They lifted their faces to the astonishing warmth. The sky arched over them, a pale, clear blue. Lina felt as though a… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The movie business was changing, I didn't want to turn 60 in the job. I picked 60 as an age where you… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Shouldn't we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The joy of motherhood comes in moments. ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place.… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
“I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that neither earth nor… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
If you want to simplify your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to fulfil your life, meditation is the answer.… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“...out of despair I decided to follow this horror through. I stared down at what I was already grasping in my hand,… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life...… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
A priest once said to me, 'Think of a priest going to the altar as you walk out on the stage.' I… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
“The world where you will go hand in hand with the Flower Maiden has neither perfect happiness, nor joy, nor life. This… — BONES, Keiko Nobumoto, Toshitsugu Iida Copy Share Image
Be yourself. If you water yourself down to please people or to fit in or to not offend anyone, you lose the… — Don Coppersmith Copy Share Image
When you're in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it's another step along the way. But I find joy in the… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything - real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image