As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

Every time I look into her eyes, I get a positive inspiration to serve humanity.

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.

On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. … Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that...

Good dancers awaken the joy in our hearts, we have seen them ablaze on stage, videos, on our streets, in the theaters, in our homes, schools and they have successfully ignited the love of dancing in our soul. At least, this is the major reason why dancers are born and made.

Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.

The quality common to the three experiences… is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and Pleasure. Joy (in my sense) has indeed one characteristic, and one only, in common...

The whole of the life — even the hard — is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to...

The sweet pleasure of your own joy and success is a cultivation of both the heart and mind.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

Starting the day—Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own sunrise. To awaken like a prayer—both solemn and joyful at still being alive . . .

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

A man that knows your worth doesn’t need to be told how to treat you. That’s a given! You won’t have to question his feelings, his motives, nor his intentions. How will I know? You ask. See, he will freely show you how he feels and prove it consistently. If you’re settling for anything less...

Never underestimate the power of kindness. It is very contagious. A person whose heart is saddened by the troubles of this world, the loss of a friend or family member, a hard days work, or the struggle of provision can experience joy through a simple act of kindness. Romans 12: 10-12, Be kindly affectionate to...

Preparation is essential to achieving your goals in life. You don’t want to miss a great opportunity because you were not prepared. Determination and motivation will put you on the right track. You’ve got the passion, that driving desire to be successful. But, you must take certain steps to put you in a position to...

The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.

The universe created us for and with love, joy, charm and beauty; but we are always running behind what is dirty.

A thankful heartis the key to overflowing joy.

I’ve come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I’m just ‘being’, and without question, by default, it works.

At the very crisis, when Satan seemed about to triumph, the Son of God came with the embassage of divine grace.

Before you live, love. Before you expire, inspire. Let your love be an inspiration to someone to also love another and together we build up a happy world!

He hadn’t realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers for the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones until it now said something it had never said to him before, which was “yes”.

In essence, joy is the quiet confidence that everything will work out right. The best part of being filled with joy is that it’s contagious. Your joy overflows. You can’t keep it to yourself. It spills over to touch other lives in such a marvelous way. People around you want to be in your company....

To feel the joy of life go where your heart is taking you.

I am the source of loveI am the source of joyI am the heaven and earthI am the happiness.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.

There was some rhythm, some ecstasy in this dance of flight that expressed the fact that happiness which touches depths and rises beyond physical confines is as old as consciousness, yet ever renewed, and is like the glorying flight of the birds

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death… . I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter–the Eternity they have entered–where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its...

Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alertto her next disaster.Despite being resigned to a life of misfortune, she becameresourceful.She grudgingly noticed that things always worked out, evenwhen she claimed defeat.An inconvenient truth, yet it was right there, in her face,betraying her self-punishments and assumptions.She kept overcoming things, dammit, aggravating herself.She...

Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.

If my clone were standing next to me, I’d be beside myself with joy. I’d also be literally beside myself. In that case, I’ll bet you’d love me twice as much, huh?

I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own free will; it cannot be belabored.

just a joy to operate.

How did she do it, I’d always wondered. Dancing with Q., I understood. Once in a while the pain falls asleep on the job, and the experienced sufferer knows enough to seize such moments swiftly and without thought – for when we realize we’re actually dancing, the jolt of joy wakens the pain.Laura Acosta

Blessed are you when you commit your life to the Lord.Your life will overflow with great joy and abundant life.

A pessimist is someone who has forgotten the joy of beginning.

If peace comes from seeing the whole,then misery stems from a loss of perspective.We begin so aware and grateful. The sun somehow hangs there in the sky. The little bird sings. The miracle of life just happens. Then we stub our toe, and in that moment of pain, the whole world is reduced to our...

Now, remember: they’re not for eating, but for listening, because you’ll often be hungry for sounds as well as food. Here are street noises at night, train whistles from a long way off, dry leaves burning, busy department stores, crunching toast, creaking bed springs, and of course, all kinds of laughter. There’s a little of...

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.

Nay, sorrow is the greater.”But I say unto you, they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible – an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head.

Jaunting off together towards the bedroom doorway, they cast off their clothes, like caps at graduation.

To fall in love for any reason does cause fires of emotion. When we are in love, we ride on a positive energy as compared to not being in love. When we are love, we transcend conditional love to that of unconditional and we are now flowering in consciousness. Love is a very important element...

All around Molly there flowed and flowered a light as impossible as snow set afire, while thousands of cloven hooves sang by like cymbals. She stood very still, neither weeping nor laughing, for her joy was too great for her body to understand.

When we live our life as if it is an open book, we are free in body, mind, and spirit and allow anyone to read from our pages.

There are still blue skies and rainbows and days bathed in sunlight. There are colorful shade trees filled with sweet bird songs. And there are wishing stars in the heavens as well as angels in God’s service. So lift up your eyes. Refuse to be unhappy.

Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.