one of my earliest joys as a parent lay in knowing that at the end of the day I had once again… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
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Sometimes you can just not spend that much money or do a minor change with color on a certain room, and it… — Katherine LaNasa Copy Share Image
When the soul knows the love of God by the Holy Spirit, then he clearly feels that the Lord is our own… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
“I have no name I am but two days old.- What shall I call thee? I happy am Joy is my name,-… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“A man worth being with is one… That never lies to you Is kind to people that have hurt him A person… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Material possessions and honors of the world do not endure. But your union as wife, husband, and family can. No sacrifice is… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's… — James Frey Copy Share Image
The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
“It is a great truth that you will rise again. It is a sweeter truth that you will "always be with the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
“A Second Childhood.” When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Somos tan pequeños como nuestra dicha y tan grandes como nuestro dolor. We are as small as our joy (the sum of… — Ch. Friedrich Hebbel Copy Share Image
“happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end—and yet to know as well, despite all this,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch.… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
An adult is one who has lost the grace, the freshness, the innocence of the child, who is no longer capable of… — Arnaud Desjardins Copy Share Image
So often we think, well, kids learn to read at school, I don't have to be responsible for that. But in fact… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I dedicate my work today to the furtherance of all things good. Whether I am paid or not, whether I am working… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
What I look at, success is about really being grateful. You wake up in the morning, and you're thankful that you could… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
Work, look for peace and calm in work: You will find it nowhere else. Pleasures flit by -- they are only for… — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
“A lot of people pray for power, house, financial breakthrough, wealth etc. But only few ask God for wisdom. There are so… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
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“When I do leap into the pit, I go headlong with my heels up, and am pleased to be falling in that… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe… — Henry Harrower Copy Share Image
When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
We're being asked to continually be "authentic" and "honest" with the world through social media. There's a demand to post our wedding… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found… — George Sand Copy Share Image
For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
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If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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