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The joy of the Lord is our strength.

Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I...

Choose joy! Joy is a choice. Joy is a witness. Joy is a therapy. Joy is a habit. If Jesus, who drank so deeply of the world’s sorrow, could be filled with so much fun...

I was alone in that room. Of course, there were bodies all around, but they were all dead. They were dead when I got there. Well, most of them were dead. The last few I...

If you like to fill your life with joyJust be lovingJust be caring And just be kind.

I didn’t expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I’m living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in...

Love allows us to remember the joy, and forget the pain. That’s why I write things down, to help me remember.

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships...

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity for joy.

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either...

Remember that our Heavenly Father knows us perfectly and knows what’s best for us . . . . Surely, His knowledge is greater than ours. We just have to have faith in Him. If we...

I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; but if I had to live my life again, I would always remain in my...

I believe it is the woman in the relationship that drives the relationship to what she wants it to be

Peace is the first condition of joy.

I miss the honor of serving as a parish pastor. There is nothing quite like it. The most challenging aspect of the job is that you just can’t please everybody all the time, no matter...

A great ring of pure & endless lightDazzles the darkness in my heartAnd breaks apart the dusky clouds of night.The end of all is hinted in the start.When we are born we bear the seeds...

She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to...

Tears are my joy to hide my pain;like thunder hides the sound of rain.

Lollypop…the passion contained merely kissesplaced upon lips, neck and cheekthese young lovers of the castleof which our fairytale speaks…

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that’s so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can’t put into words.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm likeworship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, theirsongs never cease....

The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it.

Sadly, many storytellers and artists are still addicted to the old delusions (happy is boring, evil is interesting) about the risks of good mental health. Even those who don’t view peace of mind as a...

We have soul contracts with every person in our lives to live in the vibration of truth.

The only thing that keeps us from a place of joy is an illusion, the illusion of fear.

Success is realising the true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition, aiming to achieve your bliss.

Owning the sound–Wow!–that is what brings joy to every step. That is what causes people to wake up every morning excited about their day. That is what leaves them energized rather than exhausted like before....

Soul mate love transcends beyond the ethereal plane.

Lying down gazing at the cerulean blue-black sky, she slid her hands down to intertwine her fingers with his. “I love you,” she whispers.

Forever thine, forever mine.

There is no joy in Greenville this morning. But the ball game is far from over, as environmental ideologues have vowed to fight tooth-and-nail to destroy any meaningful ESA reform in the Senate.

The mother is the child’s first relationship, his whole world, his existence. If there is love in the relationship between the child and the mother, the child learns to trust himself, to trust others and...

It is astonishing to realize that growing up actually means to become one with Existence. It means to find the whole Existence within myself, it means to discover that Existence is alive in my own...

Intuitive responses are responses which originate from joy.

You are wonderfully made. Everything about you is miraculous. Toss aside those self-doubts and criticisms. Celebrate, today, the miracle of you!

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

DETOX your mind, body, AND your contact list.

What she liked was simply life. “That’s what i did it for,” she said, speaking aloud to life… Could any man understand what she meant, either, about life? …But to go deeper, beneath what people...

The true path to success is to find your joy and share it with others.

I have control over how I plan to react, feel, think and believe in the present. No one guides the tone of my life, except me!

All roads out of hell lead home.

To both the racist and the puritan, childhood is not a time of life that we grow out of, as the life of the child grows out of the life of the parent or as...

Love is a beautiful curse that looks like a blessing ! –

Joy is a flame that glimmers only in the palm of the open and humble hand. In an open and humble palm, released and surrendered to receive, light dances, flickers happy. The moment the hand...

And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn...

Few moments are so special that they should be recognized by special expressions.