…* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are… — Geshe Gyeltsen Copy Share Image
I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Not that one choose to draw aside in churlish mein or vein, From common lot of what life holds of pleasure, toil… — Gill Robb Wilson Copy Share Image
[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four sons, who… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“There were nights when I got nothing, [but] I still played. With no one to hear me and no one to pay… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
As the leader, you're empowering talent. Once you've given the direction, it's a joy to see it put into action, to see… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
Giving means extending one's love with no conditions, no expectations and no boundaries. . . Peace of minds occurs, therefore, when we… — Gerald Jampolsky Copy Share Image
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although I know that there is ultimately greater glory in suffering than in joy, it is joy that sustains us. It is… — John Lars Zwerenz Copy Share Image
Lay your wishes aside for a spell, and look deep into what you believe about yourself. Make sure your beliefs about your… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I had the prosthetics on, and I went to my trailer, I looked in the mirror, and I smiled. And I was,… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If there is a particular person in your life that is repeatedly choosing not to honor you and is causing you more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Think that it's fun, that you're guided, and that all is well. Think that there's time, that life is easy, and that… — Mike Dooley Copy Share Image
“I want to make of your life a monument For the days you lingered in sadness With high towers and wide gardens… — Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne Copy Share Image
When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our… — Marion D. Hanks Copy Share Image
If you are having the experience of anxiety, your body is making adrenaline and cortisone, if you are having the experience of… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
To be motherly is a totally different phenomenon. It is something absolutely human; it transcends animality. It has nothing to do with… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“When you got what you wanted, you experienced a brief absence of thoughts, and that is what made you feel happy. In… — Noah Elkrief Copy Share Image
See what a hidden life the life of a good Christian is, and how much it is concealed from the eye and… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white, So full of gladness and so full of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
You dont make music for immortality you make music for the moment of capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet… — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden… — Philip Gulley Copy Share Image
Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
I can see you are a fine lady, but this boy is randy as a goat around you and it's plain to… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
What did falling in love do for you? Can you ever really explain it? It filled empty spaces I never knew were… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“the children themselves repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
![“[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.” quote by Elizabeth von Arnim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38f/elizabeth-von-arnim-2484_delicate_walking-is-the-perfect-way-of-moving-if_2386061.png)
![“There were nights when I got nothing, [but] I still played. With no one to hear me and no one to pay me, and it did not matter. On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They slipped over my tongue and spilled from my mouth. And because of them I, who was…” quote by Jennifer Donnelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c78/jennifer-donnelly-1585_joy_there-were-nights-when-i-got-nothing-but_2071716.jpg)
![“I had the prosthetics on, and I went to my trailer, I looked in the mirror, and I smiled. And I was, like, "This is the character - everything she does is with a smile and a bit of glee and joy." And that's how I created Darla [from Buffy The Vampire Slayer]. Prior to that, I was, like, "I have no…” quote by Julie Benz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5b/julie-benz-7666_bits_i-had-the-prosthetics-on-and-i-went-to-m_1907475.jpg)
