“And I think that's the story of our generation's pursuit of fulfillment in relationships. We wished for intimacy without obligation. We wished… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
“Grant, O Lord my God, that I may never fall away in success or in failure; that I may not be prideful… — St. Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be at one with God is to be at peace. The child simplicity is the greatest agency in bringing this full… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
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There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Surfing is one of the most joyful pursuits a human can take up. But there's no joy in a deadzone. If you've… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Light, my light, the world-filling light, the eye-kissing light, heart-sweetening light! Ah, the light dances, my darling, at the centre of my… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
If you watch Rafael Nadal play tennis, you can only respond with amazement and great admiration. He is an incredible athlete with… — Steffi Graf 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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