Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.

To feel the joy of life, love what you do.

Anyone who cannot understand that the blossom loves the rain, the forest loves the sunlight, and the surging wave loves the shore will never understand what love really is all about.

England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born the greatest and noblest of the Western World; an immense personality, — unique,...

I was set free! I dissolved in the sea, became white sails and flying spray, became beauty and rhythm, became moonlight and the ship and the high dim-starred sky! I belonged, without past or future,...

Every new day comes with a new joy, a new plan and a new life, all to be directed by the same old God! You need a new dream, a new passion and a new...

One minute with a silent spirit of self-knowledge is enough to align you to put smiles on the face of the boring world. The world needs you! Yes it does!

music is for most of the part,can become an ecstasy of the human mind.

It’s great to feel happy. Go, do what makes you feel happy. Do it shabbily and get shallow happiness; Do it hard and feel the hardest happiness!

We have to be open to love to feel happiness and joy.

As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith...

Many of the habits of dysfunctional families use are not from the lack of love but are the result of fear. Knowing the love-limiting habits and behaviors of dysfunctional families is a wonderful beginning to...

when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus

Jo nevajaga nemaz daudz – kādreiz pavisam nieku. Lai uzrakstītu sev par prieku, dziesmiņu par prieku.

My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day of my life with a smile on my face.

No role brings greater joy or blessing than being a parent.

I love you, Ink, and I want you-only you. Being strong doesn’t mean I don’t want you too. You are the only person who knows every part of my life, every part of me in...

We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great...

Become disinterested in your pain and suffering. Only then can you make space for your longstanding joy.

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom.When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies.Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

It is a great joy to love and be loved.

New Year, new month, new day, new moment, all places we have never been before. Enjoy each experience with relish & spice… tasty times ahead.

Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in...

True joy cannot be bought with money or found in lavish things. It’s a feeling deep within the heart.

The End” is just the beginning.

Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;Thyself from thine affectionTakest warmth enough, and from thine eyeAll lesser birds will take their jollity.Up, up, fair bride, and callThy stars from out their several boxes, takeThy...

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.