This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The day will come when you will review your life and be thankful for every minute of it. Every hurt, every sorrow,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“o sit and wait for joy to arrive without turning your mind to the things of Christ is like expecting the Holy… — Hayley DiMarco Copy Share Image
“On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't really want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“The joys come close upon the sorrows this time, and I rather think the changes have begun,’ said Mrs March. ‘In most… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Since I was introduced to the practice of God's presence, which in turn led me into the contemplative way, I have nearly… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
The logic of cross and resurrection, of the new creation which gives shape to all truly Christian living, points in a different… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are always rebels and radicals, I suppose,' McCleethy allows. 'Those who live on the fringes of society. But what do they… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
People do not like the tragic side of life. They deny pain and suffering as a facet of life. Even when someone… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education.… — Steve Kerr Copy Share Image
The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
What a strange joy it was to talk, to fish gleefully into the past and fling its fragments about us, with the… — Anne Bosworth Greene Copy Share Image
Life is not being sure what will come next or how it will come. We guess at everything we do. We take… — Angela Elwell Hunt Copy Share Image
To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
“Learn the discipline of being surprised not by suffering but by joy. As we grow old, there is suffering ahead of us,… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots,… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
“Prayers offered in faith and then followed by songs of thanksgiving, praise and worship are an expression of our faith and love… — James Strand Copy Share Image
In our truly remarkable an unexampled civil peace, where there are rarely fist fights; where no one is born, is gravely ill,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
What brings a real and lasting joy is our relationships with God, and our love for His other children He has put… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One by one, drops fell from my eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide...gather, fall, slide...each one… — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
Above all, think of life as a prototype. We can conduct experiments, make discoveries, and change our perspectives. We can look for… — Tim Brown Copy Share Image
Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
![“To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel ofactivity and service. They had reared their children and seen them take flight; moreover, they had fought through the war, their hearts in the field, their fingers…” quote by Laura E. Richards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a2/laura-e-richards-39353_active_to-thousands-of-elder-women-in-the-late_1900479.jpg)
