Oh, give our frightened souls the sure salvation for which, O Lord, You taught us to prepare. And when this cup You… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Lord Jesus, master of both the light and the darkness, send your Holy Spirit upon our preparations for Christmas. We whose hearts… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and… — Paul Pitchford Copy Share Image
If rulers learn to undervalue the lives of their own subjects by the custom of war, how much more do they undervalue… — Noah Worcester Copy Share Image
I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It is also possible to say precisely why. Truth seduces us very easily into a kind of joy of possession: I have… — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
Love is a powerful tool, and maybe, just maybe, before the last little town is corrupted and the last of the unroaded… — T. H. Watkins Copy Share Image
After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Within the framework of the Buddhist Path, reflecting on suffering has tremendous importance because -realizing the nature of suffering, you will develop… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Never love someone whom you think you need to mend – or who makes you feel like you should be mended. There… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute final way. What you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Once we recognize that all things are impermanent, we have no problem enjoying them. In fact, real peace and joy are only… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear, A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Bill Pullman is older than Aaron Eckhart - although I was older too - and the age difference changes the play. My… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
“Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I remember I'd be playing in the streets with friends, sometimes barefooted. I'd come home with sore feet, but wanting to do… — Thiago Silva Copy Share Image
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings,… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
The mind is trained from a very young age to think that life moves from one worry to the other or from… — Swami Nithyananda Copy Share Image
In a family, you take on each other's problems and joys differently, and more intensely. The amplitude - and the undulation of… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious… — Homer Copy Share Image
Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
Young people beginning a career need to realize that there are lots of "buses" in life. More often than not, selecting which… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Feelings of joy and contentment can quickly reverse the narrowing, defensive thinking style that’s induced by stress. Over a period of weeks,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who gets up every day and says, 'What am I going to do today, and how am I going to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The happy place Imparts to thee no happiness, no joy -- Rather inflames thy torment, representing Lost bliss, to thee no more… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
If there is joy, then it is best to accept that too, even though you are afraid it might end some day.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
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