One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment that alters his/her trajectory, opens up his/her heart + mind.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

…there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent…

If we were perfect—if there were no remaining corruption in our hearts—there would be no fight. There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won’t fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there...

If you want to speak to someone you cannot touch, see, or hear, the voice of love will transmit with or without a phone. It crosses all borders and travels through time and walls.

Accept your dark side, understanding it will help you to move with the light. Knowing both sides of our souls, helps us all to move forward in life and to understand that, perfection doesn’t exist.

A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when...

Random tips that will help you to have peace. Don’t do much. Don’t overwork yourself. Take a Sabbath; one day a week to do nothing overly hard. Give yourself breaks. Get a massage. Go to...

Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry,...

True joy comes from knowing Christ personally and from depending on His strength rather than your own.

You spoke to her, in hidden dreams…and smiled at her through open doors. She felt your secret love surround her at times. And while alone she felt your breath, heartbeat and more… Serenity of hers...

Joy is a decision. Circumstances and situations will scream distractions.Come what may, decide to be joyful in God and by the Holy Spirityou will be joyful.

But I think there’s a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach’s growling, I’m going to dance. That’s what I want to leave people with at the end of...

I’m happy, Ahren. I’m a princess. I have everything.””I think you’re mistaking comfort for joy.

One must have sorrow to truly appreciate joy.

People says you are not going to take anything with you at the end but people, mind that you are going to leave a lot behind you.So be precise for your deeds n trail you...

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of...

Assuming is a form of giving away your power to another regarding an outcome that concerns you.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

there are two word in my world first love the strongest and second chance quotes.

I am an immortal Experiencer. Does that changed my life,no but it changed the way I Experience life.

I sit under the weeping willow to watch the hanged man divine his truth.

Fulfil my wishes, Obey my commands.

Dance with me through moments of surreality. We are one.

The Catholic wisdom of the people… provides reasons for joy and humor even in the midst of a very hard life.

A child comes from God, a child is a gift from God, but a child is not our possession. Give the child unconditional love and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul....

Nature is inexhaustibly sustainable if we care for it. It is our universal responsibility to pass a healthy earth onto future generations.

The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it.

Happiness isn’t the reward we retrieve after a long struggle. It arrives daily, in those clear moments when our hearts are tender, pricked by the embrace of a loved one, the beauty of a single...

You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires...

Every new dayOur children’s joy is as fresh as roses,Even the birds chatter at dawn.

I want to thank you for the profound joy I’ve had in the in the thought of you.

It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or situation, which influences your emotions and actions. Your choice is to change the meaning...

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.

Caring is what matters, not stuff or status, just people sharing kindness & joy in a web of the heart that spans the globe.

Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman’s womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into...

Free your mind of that which you have no control. It is not only good to do so for your mental, but your overall health. Some people must learn from experience. You can convey knowledge...

It doesn’t matter how many friends I have because my best friend is God. And, he is a Super Friend. People come and people go, but God’s love for you will remain the same. Embrace...

True sense of humour and true, deep happiness never depend on the after effects of destructive vices

For me, comedy should have a certain amount of joy in it. It should be about attacking the powerful – the politicians, the Trumps, the blowhards – going after them. We shouldn’t be attacking the...

Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that...

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

Imagination doesn’t always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.