This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Love loves for ever, And finds a sort of joy in pain, And gives with nought to take again, And loves too… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“I believe I am to have enough to live on for about eighteen months at any rate, so that if I may… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
As I got older, I'd say probably when I got to, like, seventh or eighth grade, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia… — David Lambert Copy Share Image
Joy is the settled assurance that God is in control of all the details of my life, the quiet confidence that ultimately… — Kay Warren Copy Share Image
When the heart is full of joy, it always allows its joy to escape. It is like the fountain in the marketplace;… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The magic of playing live doesn't go away. Of course there are some shows where your energy level is low, or the… — Laurel Halo Copy Share Image
“All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter… — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Now all glory to God, who is able to keep you from falling away and will bring you with great joy into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Jesus has become your hope, communicate this to others with your joy and your spiritual, apostolic and social engagement. Let Christ… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears,… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even… — Egon Schiele Copy Share Image
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give… — John Muir Copy Share Image
If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty… — Mitsugi Saotome Copy Share Image
What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the way is called culture. Before… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“I’m young and have many hidden qualities; I’m young and strong and living through a big adventure; I’m right in the middle… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has… — Joseph Rusling Meeker Copy Share Image
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“He was sitting in the midst of a children's party at Harold's Cross. His silent watchful manner had grown upon him and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has become too… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Find thoughts that feel good, because it is inevitable that you are going to always be moving toward something. So why not… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about.… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
“We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay? A breath one single gasp must puff away! A short-lived flower, that… — Alexander Brome Copy Share Image
I want to do everything, so when I started I wanted to be an actress, and I've always written funny things. I… — Ellie Taylor Copy Share Image
The very dull truth is that writing love scenes is the same as writing other scenes - your job is to be… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Even though you were never premeditated but I'm just filled with Joy that you arrived in my life, you know if I… — Sabelo Mkhomazi Copy Share Image
A feeling that greater possessions, no matter of what kind they may be, will of themselves bring contentment or happiness, is a… — Genevieve Behrend Copy Share Image
“I sat on the couch for a while as Augustus searched for his keys. His mom sat down next to me and… — John Green Copy Share Image
