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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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 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
“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
And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the… — Marshall Berman Copy Share Image
To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow our selves to be joyful is to… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The first club that reopened in New Orleans was Caesar's, and they called me immediately and said let's do a regular night… — Big Freedia Copy Share Image
You must be made miserable before you can know true Christian joy. Indeed the real trouble with the miserable Christian is that… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: listening to… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Life is more than matter. If it were just matter, there would be no need for comfort. Matter does not feel comfort… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
“At that moment when you feel like giving up, take a look and search deep inside in oder to understand how far… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry "Amen"… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now… ... it's not… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I got really passionate about music with early Smiths and Joy Division. And New Order, Sonic Youth, Cramps...kind of right across the… — Jez Williams Copy Share Image