Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to… — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It's one of those things where the book has all these stars that burn really bright that you hang onto and they're… — Erin Cressida Wilson Copy Share Image
We’re seeking — imperfectly at every turn, no doubt — an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in… — Shelina Zahra Janmohamed Copy Share Image
Fred didn't have a favourite colour. He was just pleased that he could see all of the colours in the colour chart.… — Gabi Hollows Copy Share Image
Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Songs are snapshots of what you’re going through, and mine involve questioning, searching for completion, joy, and truth, and desperation for relief.… — Melissa Ferrick Copy Share Image
Emotions are raised in us, not only by the qualities and actions of others, but also by their feelings. I cannot behold… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Joy and Sorrow can neither be created nor be destroyed. It can only be transferred from one living being to another. The… — Swapnil Thakur Copy Share Image
The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Not for a minute did I believe that this wasn’t goodbye. Still, I had loved and been loved in return, and there… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
'Botanicula' tells the story of a group of twigs, nuts, and leaves trying to escape with the life essence of a tree… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti,… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new priority for yourself? Make feeling good your expectation. You don't have to have a… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“A wave of yet more tender joy escaped from his heart, and went coursing in warm flood along his arteries. Like the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The hours must be endured and those who cannot do so in life will most surely do so in death. You say… — Ari Berk Copy Share Image
“Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. Praise in due order; of Him as… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“May your smile brighten the days ahead of you May your cheer lighten up the moods of everyone around you May your… — Hrishikesh Agnihotri Copy Share Image
Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been… — John Williams Copy Share Image
There's something in our makeup and in our bodies that really wants to luxuriate more in just the joy of being alive… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
When you go through enough dark places, you don't complain about little things. You don't lose your joy because you got stuck… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“And yet, what Ada had written about joy was entirely true. When she stands before you with her long, naked limbs and… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Never misunderstand seriousness for sincerity. Sincerity is very playful, never serious. It is true, authentic, but never serious. Sincerity does not have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
