God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it

Life’s good when it’s lived for oneself; it’s great when lived for others. The true means of happiness is to lose your mind by thinking for others!

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There’s a fantastic joy in destroying something that...

Writing comes from the fear of failure not from the joy of winning.

The rule for J.O.Y is Jesus, Others and You. You can’t have a perfect joy if all you think about is about how to groom your life!

We are the source of infinite love, infinite joy, and infinite happiness, but we spend our whole life looking for love, joy and happiness. How foolish is this?

In our unpacking process, we must own it before we can disown it!” EL

LET’S GO BACK HOMEI can’t think about you,Without smiling.What I wouldn’t give,To go back there,Take you in my arms,Kiss you, And tell you,”I still love you.”It’s been three decades now,And still your smile’s with me,Your...

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.

Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.

A Second Childhood.”When all my days are endingAnd I have no song to sing,I think that I shall not be too oldTo stare at everything;As I stared once at a nursery doorOr a tall tree...

To be God’s people, to love Him fervently with whole hearts, is our sole desire.

It’s easy to be heavy; hard to be light.

The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

Tomorrow always has the potential for sunshine.

But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses the same words as Pain.

If there is a particular person in your life that is repeatedly choosing not to honor you and is causing you more sadness or pain than they are joy – it might be time to...

You can’t dissect a joy without killing it.

Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life. It Really Is.

Now some of you will say that the two are one and the same – happiness and joy – but this is not so. Happiness is a feeling. Happiness is fleeting, dependent on the moment,...

I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your...

The poet’s expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.

Whisper sweetly the tenderness of the moment. Let the love teach you the true meaning and passion of this experience we share. With gratitude and reverence for the blessings and miracles I receive and witness,...

More than almost anything else, the experience of parenthood exposes the gulf between our experiencing and remembering selves. Our experiencing selves tell researchers that we prefer doing the dishes — or napping, or shopping, or...

It should be the art of Christians to present death as a passage to a better life, to labour to bring our souls into such a condition, as to think death not to be a...

Every single day, no matter who you meet in the day – friends, family, work colleagues, strangers – give joy to them. Give a smile or a compliment or kind words or kind actions, but...

Pure truth is always present, but it is each soul’s choice to decide when he or she wants it to be revealed.

A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion.

In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day – or to celebrate each special day.

Fear will paralyze you and prohibit growth

You are my perfect sentiment.

All paths lead me to you.

Every song is a story unfolding.

It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers of happiness while you can.

If you love another person, you have to become a no-self, a nothing. When you love, you have to become a nobody. When you are a nobody, love happens. If you remain somebody, love never...

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

When I speak of good hearing, I do not mean listening to others; I mean simply listening to yourself. When I speak of good eyesight, I do not mean looking at others; I mean simply...

La joie réside au plus intime de l’ me; on peut aussi bien la posséder dans une obscure prison que dans un palais.

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.

[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or...

It became clear that Keisha Blake could not start something without finishing it. If she climbed onto the boundary wall of Caldwell, she was compelled to walk the entire wall, no matter the obstructions in...

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.