o sit and wait for joy to arrive without turning your mind to the things of Christ is like expecting the Holy Spirit to take 15 pounds off your body while sitting on the couch...

Thankfulness opens the door and ushers in peace and joy like a blessed breeze on a hot and humid Louisiana summer day.

I fall down I get up I fall down And the while I keep dancing.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? – an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Joy is found in Jesus when we rejoice in Him. We can rejoice our way to joy!

I’m passionate about being compassionate. It takes a lot to give of yourself, and that’s why it’s such a gift—for both the recipient and the giver.

Life is for memories, full of fun, with friends, families and joyful sun.

A writer draws a road map where readers walks with their love, joy, anger, tears, and dismay. Every story, every poem, has different meanings for every reader.

Feeling bad is not the problem.The problem is that we feel bad about feeling bad.Once you begin to let go of feeling bad about feeling bad,and start feeling better about feeling bad,then pretty soon you’ll...

Death is empowered when saints joy in faithlessness and prayerlessness

Let’s follow our curiosity & our joy.

Every time we made love, one of us cried. Mostly it was me, out of joy, but occasionally it was her, out of despair.

I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our...

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

She looks very virtuous and very melancholy.””Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But...

Trust is not hoping your partner will love you; it is KNOWING that they DO.

Your path might be a lonely one… but, you are NOT alone!

She knew there were only small joys in life–the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through–and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.

As Christians, we call ourselves people of faith, but how much practical faith do we really have?

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

The art of sensuality encompassing the exploration and experiencing of all our senses… Those images are being born from and through living the moments of eating favorite chocolate cake with ice-cream, tranquil meditating, walking the...

if you are getting progress and joy from your desire-Universe will support you .

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others’ expectations of yourself

[Describing the Israeli pullout as] historic days of joy, … we want on this occasion to pay homage to our martyrs, to our prisoners, to our wounded and all those among our people who have...

Desire I think has less to do with possession than with participation, the will to involve oneself in the body of the world, in the principle of things expressing itself in splendid specificity, a handful...

There shall be joy everywhere if there is joy in the mind!

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

Angels of highest light and love, Angels that radiate beams of pure energy from the heavens above.Please join us and be with us on this very night, As the soul of our beloved joins you...

Suffering has its place in the scheme of things. It serves a purpose even though the sufferer may be entirely free from the taint of sin… Among the gentlest and sweetest souls are sometimes found...

My Personal Super Shortcut To Happiness- When you prefer to lighten up your self-awareness, allow yourself to focus on your strongest joy, passion, and excitement. It is something you can do at every moment of...

We should always refrain from speaking harsh words that inflict pain. Our speech should be such that it gives joy to others.

Shattered edges of the diamonds rough sets to cut the unsuspecting.

Love one another gently.

The measure of space & time creates an echo of haunting distance between us, yet we are close, we are united in the love we forge together.

Man derives all the joy and peace that he needs from within himself and not from sources outside himself. So the best spiritual discipline is, strengthen the inward vision.

Our basic relationship to sex mirrors our whole relationship to life.

We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn’t we? The wonderful thing is that when we start spreading joy, we begin to actually experience more joy in our lives too!

Joy is temporary, Happiness is permanent; for it comes out from positive mind and is an art of tension free heart.

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down...

A LamentO world! O life! O time!On whose last steps I climb,Trembling at that where I had stood before;When will return the glory of your prime?No more — Oh, never more!Out of the day and...

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows.But stories all…

For every moment of suffering,Others will arriveThat will instead pierce you with joy.

It’s hard to beat Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto #5” – got the tunes – got the power – got the joy.

What separates people who made their dreams come true is not setting goals to achieve a life the way they expect it to be, but how they expect to be, in order to achieve it.

God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses.

Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn’t mine anymore, but one in which I’d found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a...