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
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
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
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
“And victory, joy, wild hope, and swelling certitude and tenderness surged through the conduits of our blood as we heard that drunken… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
The Gospel purifies and renews, it bears fruit, wherever the community of believers hears it and receives God’s grace in truth and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Prayer changes from entreaty to thanksgiving, and meditation on the divine truths of faith fills the heart with a sense of jubilation… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
“...And although thus short, we shorten many ways, Living so little while we are alive; In eating, drinking, sleeping, vain delight So… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
“He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Surely it is a matter of joy, that your faith in Jesus has been preserved; the Comforter that should relieve you is… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
There is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no testing--that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
When you have emptied all content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth,and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,but by me.… — Tamara Sanguinetti Copy Share Image
O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large… — William Blake Copy Share Image
It is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. This Presence is the source of all peace, all joy, all security.… — Mirra Alfassa Copy Share Image
“and then, instead of lamenting past calamities we might all cheerfully set to work to remedy them; and the greater the difficulties,… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
For joy, I live by the mantra of surrounding yourself with people who make your life better... people who enhance your life… — Theo Rossi Copy Share Image
“Adiyogi’s yogic mastery allowed him the pleasure of being internally drunk and completely aware, fully stoned and fully conscious, at every moment… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Let's work and rest happily, abandon us to the course of life; let's run out the muddy and rotten water of the… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Life seems somehow less shocking, painful, and lonely - and more hopeful, agreeable, and beautiful - when our experiences are confirmed by… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
It's a great joy but no test of love or commitment to take your son to a ball game. You really prove… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The pieces of the bodies of infidels were flying like dust particles. If you would have seen it with your own eyes,… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous,… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
I think our animals are angels, earth-angels, pointing out for us the steadfast path of love, loyalty, optimism, faith, joy, hope. They… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
To be truthful i am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
After all the years of [spiritual] work, ... I've realized this: that everything and everyone is precious beyond words. Everything and everyone… — Geri Larkin Copy Share Image
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...The people’s hero does not only have to be someone in possession of the scepter of power. It can be anyone capable… — Janvier Chando Copy Share Image
So spirituality itself should be self satisfying. If you are spiritually endowed, then you are self satisfied. And this self satisfaction within… — Nirmala Srivastava 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 Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I…” quote by George Sand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4a/george-sand-1753_chiefs_i-loved-fairy-stories-so-and-my-mother-w_1388127.jpg)
![“The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.” quote by William Barclay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c6/william-barclay-7864_black_the-christian-is-a-person-of-joy-a-gloom_3148852.jpg)
![“After all the years of [spiritual] work, ... I've realized this: that everything and everyone is precious beyond words. Everything and everyone is holy. And the point of our being on this sweet planet is to be of service to all of it. And when we understand this truth in our bones, joy fills our…” quote by Geri Larkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d7/geri-larkin-55468_bones_after-all-the-years-of-spiritual-work-i_177853.png)
