Blessed is the nightbird that sings for joy and not to be heard.

The more you want to dig a hole and burry yourself in it, the more you need to run and be ALIVE and do things. The more you want to do nothing, the more you...

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

True joy blossoms in the garden of inner peace.

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To...

The only rule is that truth must empower you, make you better in every way possible.

Success is likened to a deep pit, you have to jump in to get it, then you’ll need a ladder of grace to climb out to enjoy it.

We’re so accustomed to laughing. It’s harder for us when the time comes that we can’t laugh.

Joy’s recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow’s memory is sorrow still

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

When the truth is dispensed it is for the good of all, always.

The antidote to joy is dread.

If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis....

You are the ruler of my heart. There is no measure greater than this.

Never forsake what we have. There is no barter or trade worth exchanging what we mean to one another.

I will gladly spend the rest of my days learning your secrets.

I want to be tantric with you.

we want it visibleto showwhen even the most visible joywill reveal itselfonly when we havetransformed it within.there’s nowhere, my love, the world can existexpect within.

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well

Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light.

Whether we are at Cafe Gratitude or Carl’s Jr, whether we are in a cathedral or in a nightclub, whether we are inside of a mosque or on the metro, every single moment is a...

You’ve got to S-M-I-L-ETo be H-A-Double-P-Y

It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you...

There is an excitement in creating a life, rather than maintaining a life you are not excited about living.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little boy on her lap and put her arms around him and wept as...

The truth is,’ replied Dantes, ‘that I am too happy for noisy mirth; …joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

One who hates to be driven through suffering has no right to expect the pleasure, for pleasure may give joy but the pain gives meaning; Meaningless Joy is like anchor-less Ship sailing in a shoreless...

With memories of gravestones, of combing fingers through tangled hair, I wonder too … If the rent in the canvas of our life backdrop, the losses that puncture our world, and our own emptiness, might...

The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there?

Set your goals and along the way learn ride the chaotic waves of the universe without resistance. Its scheduling and course may not be what you hoped for or anticipated, but embrace it anyway with...

If you are standing in one place waiting for something to change, you may be there for a while. You’ve got to move. Step up and take a swing. Make something happen

People need to understand that not everyone is out to hurt you. There are still some great people in this world. Do not allow yourself to believe that everyone is up to no good. Just...

Today you are lifted higher. Understand that you can go further and be better than you ever thought possible. Start by saying yes to all good things. Doors will open for you filled with unlimited...

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Laughter! I remember laughter. I did laughter a lot, he thought. These colours spinning around them are matching their mirth, changing from moment to moment, flaring out as they run and throw and catch. There...

Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.

The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites saved their lives by looking upon the uplifted serpent. That look implied faith. They lived because they...

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness and the happiness of others.

In the deep places he gives thought to music great and terrible; and the echo of that music runs through all the veins of the world in sorrow and in joy; for if joyful is...

I’ll be your Dostoevsky, if you’ll be my Tolstoy. Our life together will be so full of despair that death will be like a gulag full of joy.

music is for most of the part,can become an ecstasy of the human mind.

It’s great to feel happy. Go, do what makes you feel happy. Do it shabbily and get shallow happiness; Do it hard and feel the hardest happiness!