Her room was warm and lightsome. A huge doll sat with her legs apart in the copious easy-chair beside the bed. He tried to bid his tongue speak that he might seem at ease, watching...

People with looks are lovely. People with brains are witty. People with cash are wealthy. But people with God are truly happy.

Worries are wasted energies.You can have a joyful life when you let go of your worries.

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

Of myself, I am nothing. In searching for myself, I lost myself. In receiving Christ, I found myself. By giving of myself to others, I find all joy.

My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy.{Commenting about Louis Pasteur’s accomplishment of separating two asymmetric forms of tartaric acid crystals.}

Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy as long as you know how you should always destroy the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend who never stands up for you when...

one can not run away from true feelings.

May every voice proclaim thy praise.And every knee bow in thy presenceThe tangible promise of our faith.May thy Charity, like a mantle, Lift us to God on high.

She was crouched in the corner of the room, eating something off the floor. It was the old woman dressed in endless black. When she looked up this time there was no question she was...

Crying makes problems seem longer, and laughing makes problems seem shorter. Therefore in life if you cannot find a way out of your problems just take a short cut through them: that shortcut is laughter.

The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December’s as pleasant as May.

What makes a man’s 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? “Me Father is very fond of me!

God never leaves His children to wander alone. We are always surrounded with unconditional love.

It is all for naught, if not for love.

Happily-ever-afters don’t come in happily-every-days. They are found at the end of challenges-ever-met, promises-ever-kept, and tears-ever-wept.

The only reason you continue to love someone who treats you poorly is because you don’t value yourself enough.

Never deviate from the path unless you are going to make love in the bushes …..

Happiness envelopes the heart.

Her soul whispers to his, “Take me. I am ready.

I read the title from the cover. ‘ ‘The joy of… crap.’ ‘ I read the rest of the full title of the thick, nondescript volume to myself and felt myself redden.Noah turned over on...

no”, we create a separation from life and begin to create dreams and expectations of how it should be. We begin to live in the memories of the past and in the fantasies of the...

When we have developed a trust in both our inner man and woman and they can nourish, support, communicate and cooperate with each other, a love begins to flow between them.

Modern man is full of platitudes about living life to its fullest, with catchy keychain phrases and little plaques for kitchen walls. But if you’ve never retreated to the solitude of a dark room and...

Joy is a gift given not an emotion earned.

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.

The things you can take with you: Love, Trust, Respect, Joy,.The things you leave behind: Everything else.

photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself…

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It...

Love doesn’t make the world go ’round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

On vain epätäydellisyyttä, jossa on ripaus iloa.

Happiness is wanting what you have.

This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.

We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.

The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they...

Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.

I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

Sometimes we hold on to the good and the better for a very long time that we don’t even know when we allowed the best to slip away from our hands.

In my own worst seasons I’ve come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside...

You never know who you’re inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.

Knowledge of Self is very important, you can’t be living in a world pretending to be someone you’re not. No one will ever believe in you, when you don’t have the courage to believe in...

Sometimes things will not go as planned, but don’t lose hope. Stay focused on whatever you are trying to accomplish. There will be a breakthrough soon. Understand that all things take time. You may not...

As a being and life form, all of mankind must seek the absolute sunshine of being. To do otherwise is to deny the essence of life; which is growth in body mind and soul. These...

To feel pure joy, the road of peace is the only road we should walk.

I tend to make my joy a private experience and hoard all the fruit for myself, forgetting that the tree doesn’t eat its own fruit but presents it to others.

God had spoken to His people through His Word. It had humbled them in their sins, but it had lifted them up to see the grace and mercy of God, and then had directed them...

Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our...

Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn’t like “feeling obligated to look serious”, and he centers his doubts on “what people expect of a clergyman”.

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others’ ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.

Christians know that joy is more than a feeling or an on-again, off-again sentiment that changes according to the circumstances they face. Followers of Jesus Christ distinguish between lasting joy and situational happiness. Fun and...