Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Counting our blessings can transform melancholy into cheerful mass; laughter and joy are expressions of praise and thanksgiving for life's glories. When… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
The purpose of the Lord's Supper is to receive from Christ the nourishment and strength and hope and joy that come from… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Joy, anger, sadness, pleasure, love, evil, greed. Where is your heart at? This world is like a furnace you temper yourself, and… — Da Xia Copy Share Image
The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Jehovah, the Christian name for God derived from the Hebrew Yahweh, (from the letters YHWH), is translated as "I AM." YOU ARE… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Mencheres slid through the water toward her, drawn by the same inexorable compulsion that led moths to dance with flames. He'd had… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal… — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
“The spiritual intense fixation of the mind, by contemplation on God in Christ, until the soul be as it were swallowed up… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
The greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships. The joys come from putting the welfare of others… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“This is the true joy of life: the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair,… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work,… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
Hello...Although you (reporters) are busy thank you for coming to this place. Today, the reason that I called you...I wanted to talk… — Youngjae Copy Share Image
In the U.S., my whole life, I felt like I had to be the best and score more goals and run with… — Christen Press Copy Share Image
“And here the first word that I wish to say to you: joy! Do not be men and women of sadness: a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something… — Leo Kadanoff Copy Share Image
As a gymnast, I've always compartmentalized my life, which is a blessing and a curse. But over time, I've learned that my… — Katelyn Ohashi Copy Share Image
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I think people are so hopeful for having some joy in life that is really hard to find. You can't make… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
You must not allow yourselves to become discouraged. Missionary work brings joy, optimism, and happiness. Don't give Satan an opportunity to discourage… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
My daughter...why do you not tell me about everything that concerns you, even the smallest details? Tell Me about everything, and know… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
God wants you to find your way back to Him, and the Savior is the way. God wants you to learn of… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Thank you for always being there. Thank you for this new day. Full of possibilities, hope, life,full of you. Let me embrace… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love, when a man applies himself with joy and love… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Something I constantly notice is that unembarrassed joy has become rarer. Joy today is increasingly saddled with moral and ideological burdens, so… — Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict Copy Share Image
A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
Babies should enjoy the freedom to vocalize whether it be in church, a public meeting place, during a movie, or after hours… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things;… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
Would it not be well this Christmas to give first to the Lord, directly through obedience, sacrifice, and love, and then to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Much of my crying is for joy and wonder rather than for pain. A trumpet's wailing, a wind's warm breath, the chink… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
Part of the joy I'm discovering in acting is the fact that it's uncomfortable to me, that it's challenging, and the possibilities… — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
“Until she'd known him she'd never experienced sorcery. Never known what it was like to feel passion. For the sheer blinding alchemy… — Karen Ranney Copy Share Image
I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image