When my late father died — now I’m in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavement suddenly taught me that so many things that I thought were important, externals, etc.,...

Happiness is the good life that is marked by flourishing well-being, joy, prosperity, peace, satisfaction, and pleasure.

Deep SongBelief is what buries us—that& the belief in belief—No longerdo I trust liltlessness—leewardis the world’sway—Go onplunge in—the lungs willlet us float.Joy is the mile-high ledgethe leap—a breathabove the lip of the abandonedquarry—beliefthe dark the...

We need this season. I think that will be the ultimate joy, to see us do well this season.

The joy of being a battleground state is that you get presidential hopefuls in 2006.

What is life if not joy?

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the...

When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a united team connected at the heart level.

There is always a TRUTH to be revealed in any situation where your emotions have shifted.

One of the things about choosing is it really gives your power back. In choosing joy you get to choose something that doesn’t take much time or money and is not controversial.

Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts… for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and...

Love is transcendent. It knows not of time nor space. It exist between ‘us’ for ‘us.’ Love and be loved. ~ Always ~

I am awake and witness to the beauty that resides behind you’re soulful eyes of intent. Become my impaler.

I want to drink from you’re life force.

Joy is the reflex of terror.

The New Man means to develop all the three dimensions of being, all the three doors to God: the head, the dimension of thinking, logic and reason, the heart – the dimension of joy, trust,...

Through becoming aware of how the inner man and woman relates and communicates inside ourselves, it creates a joy and satisfaction in the three life areas that they influence: our meditation and inner growth, our...

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

Happy is what I feel; Joy is what I experience.

If you want to have the time of your life, change how you use the time in your life.

If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will...

Life is so funny sometimes that you just have to laugh.

Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.

How wise should we be if, with joyful certainty, we accepted each unfolding of His will as a proof of His faithfulness and love!

He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.

Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…

While many of us admire nice things, materialism and suffering may share a connection. When we place a great deal of our happiness in material things, we run the great risk of losing our happiness...

When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life...

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been–for a moment’s relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been...

Practice patience to get the results but don’t be much patient to take actions.

What is the point of our lives? There isn’t any. I can’t seem to decide how much horror and how much joy lies within that simple truth, but I know it is both of those...

Live joy. Be kind. Love unconditionally.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful...

Sometimes in life you find love so powerful that you get tunnel vision. You only see the one you love, the one you desire. No one or no thing gets in the way of what...

Never allow anyone to take advantage of you in no shape form or fashion. People get into relationships for different reasons. And, many are often looking for something in return and it mostly relates to...

you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.

Ah! Let the soul dance with joyLet us sit in dark deep silencenow feel, see and enjoy!

We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.

Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.

I won’t be stuck in traffic ’til I see how rugged my path isAnd right now I’m loving how fast my troubles are fastingNo they don’t bother me oh realizing I’m psychopathicA wild beast, baby...

I want to be the joy to people through my work.

I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond; and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and...

I don’t really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

Take a deep breath and feel the joy of life. Open your eyes and see the beauty of a dancing leaf.

In your daily life, let your destined visions be farther than your gifted sight and your ultimate joy be vibrant than your demeaning worries. Think big, dream big.

When happiness depends on a situation or creation, it is not happiness; it is the joy of action.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

The idea of Zen is to catch life as it flows. There is nothing extraordinary or mysterious about Zen. I raise my hand ; I take a book from the other side of the desk...