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.

The heart dances with joy when you’re sharing.

Living beautifully and justly are the source of all joy and happiness.

Sing before the spirits and dance with the earth deitiesAnd you will be able to compose your own tune.Then you and I, united, will clap hands joyously,Singing ‘tum-tiddly-um tum-tiddly-um-tum.

beauty such as theirs was something with which one lived joyously — racing with the wind, with storm and snow, dancing in the frost or among the golden wattles, galloping, galloping in the spring sun....

Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. (“Jane Brown’s Body”)

I write because there is nothing as joyful as writing, even when the writing is twisted and full of hate, the self-hate that makes writing not only possible but necessary. I hate myself, I hate...

The key to happiness is to listen to campy Parisian music and smile at a bird. It hinges on insanity, but it works.

The Bible is the ultimate book of wisdom and advice.

It’s better if you don’t come at all, then come and act like you don’t want to be here. The same applies to there, when I’m there, which is also confusingly here, though it’s not...

Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

When it comes to love, your point of view, your imagination and your energy can carry you through anything. As you love, it will spill over to everyone and everything you encounter and beyond. There...

There is no destination; when you manifest the love, health, money you so desire and deserve, you will have the desire to manifest more. Your soul wants all these experiences and declaring your desires is...

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.

I adored ‘Breaking The Waves,’ so when Lars von Trier wanted me in ‘Dogville,’ I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I’ve ever worked with works.

… joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day.

She did not find these riches (of fulfillment). They were a gift from God.

Instead of imposing new obligations, (Christians) should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet.

A simple truth delivered in kindness may be the impetus that ignites a passionate fire in another’s soul and goes on to become the source of motivation for positive change.

If we want to grow, the way to break a pattern of negativity is to face anything negative with love.

It’s none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being...

As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which...

The moon had never been as bright as the shine it was granting the sky with, committing every moment until sunrise.

We will never have an expiration date. Our love is destined to exist forever.

My heart is beating with joy, my head is filled with song and my soul is intertwined with yours which is where it always belonged.

Only the unprotected self can feel joy.

It is when we develop both our inner man and woman that we find a new harmony and wholeness within ourselves. Healing means to develop and integrate our inner man and woman so that love...

Joy weathers any storm: Happiness rides the waves.

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. But that is the most that hope can do for us – to make some hardship lighter. When I think deeply...

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.

The joy you get from helping other people is hard to come by. Once you’re involved with Angel Flight, it becomes infectious.

The greatest joy that we can awaken to is LIFE because therein lies unlimited JOY, if we so choose.

Most people are about as happy as their self confidence will allow them to be.

I never wanted to be a God fearing person. I wanted to grow up and be a person that was fearless for God. There was a difference.

She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone...

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

Only a clever human can make a real Joke about virtue, or indeed about anything else; any of them can be trained to talk as if virtue were funny. Among flippant people the joke is...

Somos tan pequeños como nuestra dicha y tan grandes como nuestro dolor.We are as small as our joy (the sum of all our joys) and as big as our pain (the sum of all our...

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.