In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Oh the joy of an idée fixe! The contentment of a life taken up some ideal, any ideal! A gentle trap to… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
Know that you are part of a joyful Universe. Allow your romantic, ecstatic, blissful emotions to appear more frequently in your daily… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
No matter how cruel those people who crossed your life were. No matter how hard they hurt you or how painful their… — Moulay Abdallah Boulaasair Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
That his prayer was nothing else but a sense of the presence of GOD, his soul being at that time insensible to… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Experience everything; Times of sorrow, times of Joy. Times of darkness, times of light. Times of lost heart, times of hope. Times… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I need to learn. Joy is at the heart of God's plan for human beings. The reason for this is worth pondering… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“When I was a nursemaid at the home of the landowners, a nun who happened to pass once gave me something square… — Sayo Masuda Copy Share Image
There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts … We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Joy makes us want to invest more deeply in the people around us. It makes us want to learn more about our… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
And once we have the condition of peace and joy in us, we can afford to be in any situation. Even in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You know, that's what I've regretted the most, that joy. Of course, later there were times when I felt happy, but happiness… — Susanna Tamaro Copy Share Image
But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“We often try to force the experience we want to have, instead of allowing the experience we were meant to have, and… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; when there is injury, pardon; where… — Francis Of Assisi Copy Share Image
Life is filled with the extremes of joy and sorrow ,victory and defeat.But we have been given the previlege of entering into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“So you'll let me exert my will over you. I will gain a great deal of pleasure, joy even, in your submission.… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
You know what gives me the courage to keep on living? The courage to love myself a little? It's having a whole… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Your natural inclination is to preach and to warn other travellers of snags in the path, but isn't it better to signal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, the film initially - we had decided to pair joy with fear because I don't know about you - for me… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day… — Greg Anderson Copy Share Image
I've never been interested in diarising my life through song. So much stuff has been done before. So many people have brilliantly… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
The truth is that what the great religions preached, the Yiddish-speaking people of the ghettos practiced day in and day out. They… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That world affords… — Edward Dyer Copy Share Image
From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult,… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to become a… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
