“... but happiness is to joy as an electric light bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you're happy… — Susanna Tamaro Copy Share Image
We wish the joy of love, the joy of companionship, of being in the company of, in the presence of the person… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
New York, to me, even though I grew up here, there's something magical about it. I remember, every time I used to… — Carol Kane Copy Share Image
“Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all! Not for such hopes and fears Annulling youth's brief years, Do I… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“So my pleasure in addressing you will keep pace with the joy in my heart at the glad news of the complete… — Bede the Venerable Copy Share Image
“never had a gift but one, to know when the great wheel gives to a touch, to know and act. I had… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy?" he said softly. "Assuredly," she said, "provided one listens to the silence and… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“Life is a circle wherein, there is love. All are included embraced through Soul eyes Rainbows of light fill our hearts, when… — Ulonda Faye Copy Share Image
“Is this not the collector's exquisite pleasure, that his desire should know no bounds, should reach out into the infinite, should never… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that I carry, and just my goals in life, is just encourage people and make them… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“He was woken by music. It beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music, played by delicate instruments that he could not identify,… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A happy but miserable state in which man finds himself from time to time; sometimes he believes he is happy by loving,… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
“Someday … when we're old and gray, I'm going to look at you lying in bed beside me, just like this, and… — Mia Sheridan Copy Share Image
Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When I am wrong, he is delighted to forgive. When I am angry, he clowns to make me smile. When I am… — Gene Hill Copy Share Image
“We rest; A dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; One wandering thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“TEN GUIDEPOSTS FOR WHOLEHEARTED LIVING 1. Cultivating authenticity: letting go of what people think 2. Cultivating self-compassion: letting go of perfectionism 3.… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault,… — Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix Copy Share Image
“As you travel along the roads in life, there is a certain kind of peace that comes with knowing you're on the… — Amaka Nkosazana Copy Share Image
“Our ability to cultivate joy has not been scientifically studied as thoroughly as our ability to cultivate happiness. In 1978, psychologists Philip… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are no happier people on this planet than those who decide that they want something, define what they want, get hold… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
As you walk, you touch the ground mindfully, and every step can bring you solidity and joy and freedom. Freedom from your… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“How do we handle feelings? What significance should we attach to them? If we want to keep our feelings from deceiving and… — George Foster Copy Share Image
“Who never wanted, ― maddest joy Remains to him unknown ; The banquet of abstemiousness Surpasses that of wine. Within its hope,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“...joy was something she willed herself to show us, something she raised from deep inside herself as a promise for what could… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“Going beyond our ordinary concept of self is what always brings us the greatest sense of joy in life. Going beyond our… — Cynthia Sue Larson Copy Share Image
“Peaceful with six children Darya Alexandrova could not be...Rare indeed were the brief periods of peace...hard though it was for the mother… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
My heart melts like a candle, your love is too much to handle Your breathe is like a breeze, its hot but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
