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How does it save the world to reject unabashed joy when it is joy that saves us? Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering. The converse does. (Page 58)
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
It is true, I never stop wanting to learn the hard eucharisteo for deathbeds and dark skies and the prodigal sons. But I accept this is the way to begin, and all hard things come in due time and with practice. Yet now wisps of cheese tell me gentle that this is the first secret step into euchaisteo's miracle. Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant - a seed - this plants the giant miracle. The miracle of eucharisteo, like the Last Supper, is in the eating of crumbs, the swallowing down one mouthful. Do not disdain the small. The whole of life - even the hard - is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. (Page 57)
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Relationships are painful when they are not working and so joyful when they are.
— Pamela Cummins, Psychic Wisdom on Love and Relationships
Time, what God first deemed holy above all else (Genesis 2:3). Thank God for the time, and very God enters that time, presence hallowing it.... I awake to I AM here. When I'm present, I meet I AM, the very presence of a present God. (page 70)
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
The Bible is the ultimate book of wisdom and advice.
— Elizabeth George, Prayers to Calm Your Heart: Finding the Path to More Peace and Less Stress
The endWhen I die bang on cansRomp around in leaps and boundsLet whips crack in the airCall in clowns and acrobats!I want my coffin to go on a donkeyDecked out in Andalusian styleYou can't refuse anything to a dead manAnd I want, by all means, go on a donkey
— Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Mário de Sá Carneiro - Poesias
The golden moments of your life blend in fulfilment with the deepest joy and love you share with your love ones.
— Angelica Hopes
I want God to be first in my life, so I’m putting Him first in my life today.
— Elizabeth George, Small Changes for a Better Life: Daily Steps to Living God's Plan for You
It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
It is my opinion that enjoying yourself in the present and loosening your definition of time slows the aging process.
— Frederick Dodson, Parallel Universes of Self
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 has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.
— Rollo May
Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.
— Elizabeth George, A Woman's Daily Walk with God
If we are saved by grace alone, this salvation is a constant source of amazed delight. Nothing is mundane or matter-of-fact about our lives. It is a miracle we are Christians, and the gospel, which creates bold humility, should give us a far deeper sense of humour and joy. We don't take ourselves seriously, and we are full of hope for the world.
— Timothy J. Keller, Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City
He used to wonder how such a frail little body could house so much joy, so much goodness. It couldn't. It spilled out of her, came pouring out her eyes.
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Human experience always contains both pain and joy. One of the reasons we can be confident that Christianity is actually true is it allows us to make sense of both aspects of the world. Of both beauty and pain.
— Holly Ordway
Practice patience to get the results but don't be much patient to take actions.
— Amit Kalantri
Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.
— Elizabeth George
A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.
— Brandi L. Bates
Strike, with hand of fire, O weird musician, thy harp strung with Apollo's golden hair; fill the vast cathedral aisles with symphonies sweet and dim, deft toucher of the organ keys; blow, bugler, blow, until thy silver notes do touch and kiss the moonlit waves, and charm the lovers wandering 'mid the vine-clad hills. But know, your sweetest strains are discords all, compared with childhood's happy laugh—the laugh that fills the eyes with light and every heart with joy. O rippling river of laughter, thou art the blessed boundary line between the beasts and men; and every wayward wave of thine doth drown some fretful fiend of care. O Laughter, rose-lipped daughter of Joy, there are dimples enough in thy cheeks to catch and hold and glorify all the tears of grief.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
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 how hard you try. But the greatest honor of the office, from my perspective, is being invited into the lives of people at their very best moments and at their very worst moments.
— Matthew C. Harrison, A Little Book on Joy: The Secret of Living a Good News Life in a Bad News World
You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.
— Amit Kalantri
It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish.
— Amit Kalantri
Customers loves certainty, make sure you give it to them.
— Amit Kalantri
Injustice happened to animals as they born an animal, you are born as man what else do you need ?
— Amit Kalantri
In this week I see such a picture of life, hard and joyful pressed up together and sleeping in the same bed. They come knit together. The lines of pain run through the joy and remind us to go all in, because life is short. The joy edges the pain and gives us a reason to rise.
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
No question, no problem, no concern, is too big or too small for God to handle!
— Elizabeth George
You can't fake joy. Authentic joy is the kind that grows out of the soil of pain and doubt and fear, because that is the reality of the world.
— Holly Ordway
Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all the light and all the joy of my life went out there.[Having himself spent a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to prove Euclid's postulate that parallel lines do not meet, Farkas discouraged his son János from any further attempt.]
— Farkas Bolyai
I am afloat on a sea of foaming joy and delight.
— J.P. Martin
Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alertto her next disaster.Despite being resigned to a life of misfortune, she becameresourceful.She grudgingly noticed that things always worked out, evenwhen she claimed defeat.An inconvenient truth, yet it was right there, in her face,betraying her self-punishments and assumptions.She kept overcoming things, dammit, aggravating herself.She still felt so much joy, despite her efforts to be miserable.Her life was full of miracles and spectacles that she was afraidto rely on so she didn’t know how to enjoy, how to be thankful,without guilt.She didn’t want to win and she didn’t want to lose.Ambiguity intrigued her and she found passion in the gapsbetween hope and despair.
— G.G. Renee Hill, The Beautiful Disruption
The thing that I was experiencing and dwelling on the entire time is that there are so many things that are not OK and that will never be OK again. But there’s also so many things that are OK and good that sometimes it makes you crumple over with being alive. We are allowed such an insane depth of beauty and enjoyment in this lifetime. It’s what my dad talks about sometimes. He says the only way that he knows there’s a God is that there’s so much gratuitous joy in this life. And that’s his only proof. There’s so many joys that do not assist in the propagation of the race or self-preservation. There’s no point whatsoever. They are so excessively, mind-bogglingly joy-producing that they distract from the very functions that are supposed to promote human life. They can leave you stupefied, monastic, not productive in any way, shape or form. And those joys are there and they are unflagging and they are ever-growing. And still there are these things that you will never be able to feel OK about–unbearably awful, sad, ugly, unfair things.
— Joanna Newsom
No one should ever be punished for feeling love.
— Julieanne O'Connor, Spelling It Out for Your Man
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.
— Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
Trust is not hoping your partner will love you
—  it is KNOWING that they DO.
Alex here. (...) Ron, I really enjoy all the help you have given me and the times we spent together. I hope that you will not be too depressed by our parting. It may be a very long time before we see each other again. But providing that I get through the Alaskan Deal in one piece you will be hearing form me again in the future. I’d like to repeat the advice I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing or been to hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one piece of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. (...) Once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. (...) Don’t settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. (...) You are wrong if you think joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.Ron, I really hope that as soon as you can you will get out of Salton City, put a little camper on the back of your pickup, and start seeing some of the great work that God has done here in the American West. you will see things and meet people and there is much to learn from them. And you must do it economy style, no motels, do your own cooking, as a general rule spend as little as possible and you will enjoy it much more immensely. I hope that the next time I see you, you will be a new man with a vast array of new adventures and experiences behind you. Don’t hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. Just get out and do it. You will be very, very glad that you did.Take care Ron,Alex
— Jon Krakauer
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.
— Julieanne O'Connor, Spelling It Out for Your Man
Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.
— Elizabeth George, Small Changes for a Better Life Growth and Study Guide
When you are happy for other people's dreams, your dreams start jumping up with joy. Elizabeth was happy with Mary and her dream baby was jumping in her womb crazily for joy!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
If hard work is the source of happiness, then we can conclude that the main job of procrastination is to delay that happiness for excuses to kill.
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
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 in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.
— David Steindl-Rast, Gratefulness, The Heart Of Prayer: An Approach To Life In Fullness
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!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Pleasure” is different from “happiness”. It has its own definition. Pleasure may or may not come from hard work; Pleasure may or may not come from sin; However, happiness is always divine and comes from fulfillment!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Long ago, the gods argued over where to hide the secret to happiness, so that in finding it, the people would appreciate its importance. One god suggested a high mountain-top. Another wanted to bury it deep in some unknown land. And yet another said to hide it in the darkest waters of the ocean. Where do you suppose they hid it? They hid it in the depths of the heart. Happiness lies within one's heart. When you touch someone's heart, or your heart is touched, you feel happiness. People are made that way.
— Kae Maruya, Noble Contract
And while throughout the self same motion Repeated on forever flows The thousandfold o er arching ocean Its strong embrace around all throws Streams through all things the joy of living The least star thrilleth fond accord And all their crowding all their striving Is endless rest in God the Lord. - - -GER:Wenn im Unendlichen dasselbeSich wiederholend ewig fließt,Das tausendfältige GewölbeSich kräftig ineinander schließt,Strömt Lebenslust aus allen Dingen,Dem kleinsten wie dem größten SternUnd alles Drängen, alles RingenIst ewige Ruh in Gott dem Herrn.Zahme Xenien VI.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Xenien
Isn't God the one who urges us to "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord"? Why do we always think that means singing? Seems to me the most obvious joyful sound on earth is laughter... I've seen folks quote verses like "Rejoice in the Lord always" while their faces look like they just buried a rich uncle who willed everything to his pregnant guinea pig. Something is missing.
— Charles R. Swindoll, Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life
The most important thing you must decide to do every day is put the Lord first.
— Elizabeth George
To be God's people, to love Him fervently with whole hearts, is our sole desire.
— Elizabeth George
Just as the rain carries positive ions, so does change make you more apt to experience love with an expansive heart.
— Julieanne O'Connor, Spelling It Out for Your Man
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 is no force imaginable that is more powerful than the act of love.
— Julieanne O'Connor, Spelling It Out for Your Man
Jealousy is not a result of love. It is a result of crossed relationship boundaries. Love and relationships should not be confused.
— Julieanne O'Connor, Spelling It Out for Your Man
Some say ignorance is bliss, I say love is.
— Julieanne O'Connor, Spelling It Out for Your Man
You cannot predict the future but you can love and then love some more.
— Julieanne O'Connor, Spelling It Out for Your Man
Our willingness to suffer for Him takes away fear and instills the blessed joy.
— Rochunga Pudaite, The Dime That Lasted Forever
God had spoken to His people through His Word. It had humbled them in their sins, but it had lifted them up to see the grace and mercy of God, and then had directed them into a new life of obedience. In all our desperate searching for ways to find joy, God is telling us that we will never find joy like the joy of knowing God, being humbled in our sins, experiencing His grace, and walking in a life of obedience.
— Colin S. Smith, The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life
I need no alibi,I did steal your heart.
— Sapphire Belucci
Work and happiness are like mother and daughter; work brings forth happiness, but hard work brings forth great happiness!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
His music gave no lesser joy than a vacation. Creativity in his music and its success stood out as an example to all kinds of artists, in the lectures of business speakers, engineers, and to anyone who built or constructed something in their respective profession.
— Amit Kalantri, One Bucket of Tears
Just us fancy wise-men trying to take on the world.
— Sapphire Belucci
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.
— Shannon L. Alder
There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.
— Karl Ove Knausgård, A Time for Everything
Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back.
— Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
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.
— Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium: The Joy of the Gospel
But let me offer a word of caution. If you choose to give from your heart, be careful. The most incredible feeling might just overwhelm you. And if you continue in this behavior, that feeling may become permanent.
— Steve Goodier
My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…
— Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
Cultivate a spirit of joy and praise. Not only will you light up your own heart, but the hearts of those around you.Always look for the good in people. In most cases you will find it.
— Loretta Livingstone
We don’t like death. We’d rather produce seeds another way. But death to ourselves, our agendas, our expectations, our hopes is necessary to find deep joy that comes when we fully relinquish ourselves to the gospel.
— Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Few moments are so special that they should be recognized by special expressions.
— Amit Kalantri, One Bucket of Tears
A few years ago I spent Christmas and New Years alone. No family. No friends. No gifts. A little tree with some lights on it. A small Christmas dinner (in a can). Far from home but with a lot of good memories of it. I didn't feel too sad because I knew things would change for the better because I knew I would change them for the better. It was all up to me, not fate, or luck (although understand that those are big players in this game too). If I didn't like where I was at that moment I couldn't feel sorry myself and blame someone else, play the victim. I was the one who put myself there and I knew I was the one that had to change. So I did. See, misery is never very far away from us (it lurks around every dark corner) but neither is joy. You've got to roll with that black horse when it visits, ride that bitch out if you can but you've got to enjoy the hell out of the other too, when it chances to come your way. Above all, you've got to recognize joy when it shows up to dance with you and, sorry, that's not nearly as easy as it sounds. You've got to fight tooth and nail in this life to try and be as happy as you can with the circumstances you've been given. You've got to fight with every inch of your being for that and grit your teeth and stick out your chin while you're doing it too because although without a doubt it's the right fight to be in, it's going to be hard sometimes. So hard that maybe you'll be blind to everything else. Along the way however, always remember one thing: even though there are people out there in the world who will take the heart right out of you...there are those who will put it right back in again (let them). Learn to recognize who they are because that's something really worth knowing. But it's up to you in the end. It's up to you to embrace the wonders in this life and to deny the darkness (and there are plenty of both). Be strong, be brave, be kind, be noble and above all, slay your dragons and keep on moving. Don't stop. And finally, even if happiness forgets you for a little while, never completely forget about it. It's there waiting for the other to pass. Even in your darkest hour don't ever doubt that for a second.
— Noel James Riggs
Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life’s problems when you count them as joy.
— Elizabeth George
A joyful person is one who deals daily with their problems, faithfully and obediently counting their trials as joy.
— Elizabeth George, Finding God's Path Through Your Trials: His Help for Every Difficulty You Face
The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.
— Mary E. DeMuth, Wall Around Your Heart
The sky is a blue so clean it verges on joy.
— Nadeem Aslam, The Blind Man's Garden
Like other spiritual fruit, joy must be cultivated.
— George Foster, Amazing Peace-PI
Success is likened to a deep pit, you have to jump in to get it, then you'll need a ladder of grace to climb out to enjoy it.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
What a joy it is to look at loved ones, flowers, trees, the sky, bird, mountains, babies, and sunsets, to mention a very few things, and know how special they really are. What a joy it is to see the hand of God around you constantly, even in a troubled world.
— Van Harden, Life in the Purple Wedge!
True joy blossoms in the garden of inner peace.
— Milan Ljubincic
She did not find these riches (of fulfillment). They were a gift from God.
— Lyle Wesley Dorsett, Surprised by Love: Her Life and Marriage to C.S. Lewis
If [you] are [a Christian] … you should feel secure and honored that God loves you so much! That knowledge is a joy and a privilege. No one can ever take that from you because no one can ever take you from God!
— Van Harden, Life in the Purple Wedge!
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 and laughter, then so can I.
— George Foster, Amazing Peace-PI
We are not perfect in ourselves, but in Him we are. In the red circle of this world, there is no hope. However, because you’re living in the purple wedge, there is always His hope, power, and joy.
— Van Harden, Life in the Purple Wedge!
The joy of the Lord is our strength.
— Euginia Herlihy
Joy is a gift given not an emotion earned.
— Todd Stocker, Refined: Turning Pain Into Purpose
you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
Joy brings smiles on our faces, it brings power, peace and sound mind.
— Euginia Herlihy
Find my hand in the darkness, intertwined you will be the day to my night. We can share wings and take flight towards our own inner light.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Impossible to let go ... No longer knowing how to hold on.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
My mind aches with a thousand stories. All variations with shredded threads of truth.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
The Phoenix burns and rebirths from the ashes in the absence of need for witness, acceptance, understanding or belief.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
She always, She always wanted to express herself but no one cared,So she stopped,She was crushed,Stiff & lifeless,Like everything else.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure in the endless repetition of the beautiful, poetic, and absurd. We find, in all these records of the past, philosophies and dreams, and efforts stained with tears, of great and tender souls who tried to pierce the mystery of life and death, to answer the eternal questions of the Whence and Whither, and vainly sought to make, with bits of shattered glass, a mirror that would, in very truth, reflect the face and form of Nature's perfect self.These myths were born of hopes, and fears, and tears, and smiles, and they were touched and colored by all there is of joy and grief between the rosy dawn of birth, and death's sad night. They clothed even the stars with passion, and gave to gods the faults and frailties of the sons of men. In them, the winds and waves were music, and all the lakes, and streams, and springs,—the mountains, woods and perfumed dells were haunted by a thousand fairy forms. They thrilled the veins of Spring with tremulous desire; made tawny Summer's billowed breast the throne and home of love; filled Autumns arms with sun-kissed grapes, and gathered sheaves; and pictured Winter as a weak old king who felt, like Lear upon his withered face, Cordelia's tears. These myths, though false, are beautiful, and have for many ages and in countless ways, enriched the heart and kindled thought. But if the world were taught that all these things are true and all inspired of God, and that eternal punishment will be the lot of him who dares deny or doubt, the sweetest myth of all the Fable World would lose its beauty, and become a scorned and hateful thing to every brave and thoughtful man.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
Love is transcendent. It knows not of time nor space. It exist between 'us' for 'us.' Love and be loved. ~ Always ~
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.
— M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
Soul mate love transcends beyond the ethereal plane.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Fate had a hand in it - luck had nothing to do with it.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
If its a lie,Then let me live,Between the interconnected fabric of truths,Offer me no more,Give me no less.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.
— Mother Teresa
Shattered edges of the diamonds rough sets to cut the unsuspecting.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
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'm gladly running afterYes a thing called peace outlasting any madnessThe devil fears me oh he's feelingLike a fragment of a fractionNo he won't come near me'Cause his hat trick's out of practice
— Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
Do you trust me?"She could still hear him, through flesh and noise."I love you!" she shouted.It wasn't the answer he'd expected or the she'd expected to give. It was the wrong time, the wrong thing to say, but her answer lit a fire in his eyes.
— Dawn Metcalf, Indelible
Love does not have gender. Love is not exclusive! Our hearts have the capacity to love so many people. The only tragedy is when fear, cultural barriers, ridiculous misunderstandings, or arbitrary numbers prevent us from experiencing the joy we could have.
— Nadia Scrieva, Tides of Tranquility
Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I danced.'Pray,' they said, and I laughed,covering myself in the earth's brightnesses,and then stole off gray into the midst of a revel,and prayed like an orphan.
— Wendell Berry, The Mad Farmer Poems
Keep Smiling, Rock On!
— Gaurav Prabhu
Judge not, lest ye miss out on all the fun.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a realist who says the world is terrible, or a naïve optimist who says the world is wonderful and turns a blind eye. [Jack] Gilbert takes this middle way, and I think it’s a far better way: he says the world is terrible and wonderful, and your obligation is to joy. . . . A real, mature, sincere joy—not a cheaply earned, ignorant joy. He’s not talking about building a fortress of pleasure against the assault of the world. He’s talking about the miraculousness of moments of wonder and how it seems to be worth it, after all.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.
— Lynn Austin, Pilgrimage: My Journey to a Deeper Faith in the Land Where Jesus Walked
Joy is something we can’t manufacture. Joy happens to us not because of us.
— Todd Stocker, Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter
Happy is what I feel
—  Joy is what I experience.
Every cloud has a silver lining. The edge of light that shines brightest holds a sliver of hope for a bright today & an even better tomorrow.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Never deviate from the path unless you are going to make love in the bushes .....
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Happiness comes easier when I'm thinking of you.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
You are worth fighting for.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Control is an illusion, as is restraint. Dark to light, light to darkness.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Never forsake what we have. There is no barter or trade worth exchanging what we mean to one another.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
You are the master of my heart. I am a slave to you're soul. Intertwined in a perfect embrace that I will never release myself from.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
All that I am. All that I will be is defined by this moment.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
I am insatiable - aim to sate me but never dull my flames of desire that are fuelled by the existence of you.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
You are my dark turned to bright, the day into my light. A vision of splendour to my lights, light.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
I could hear the human noise as were standing still in between the spaces of silence.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
I sit under the weeping willow to watch the hanged man divine his truth.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
You are my perfect sentiment.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
May I be awoken by the thunder of Zeus & touched by his lighting. It only need strike once. Once is enough to ignite the soul with purpose.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
The moon had never been as bright as the shine it was granting the sky with, committing every moment until sunrise.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Happiness is being emerged in thoughts of you.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Happiness envelopes the heart.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Machinations are divined. Response is by nature, nurture, experience and if sought peer pressure. You are the owner of free will. Choose.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
There is sanctity in knowing, being, wanting, feeling all of everything for you.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
I am awake and witness to the beauty that resides behind you're soulful eyes of intent. Become my impaler.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Pave the path for a more righteous life.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Embrace life in totality.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
The immortal gods, the deities will rise, they will fall but none will live beyond the wall. Prometheus, knows love & saves them all.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Fulfil my wishes, Obey my commands.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
In search of Magnum opus - perhaps you were divined to be mine.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
May the four winds gather & disperse the strength to grant me with all the same blessings once bestowed upon the goddess of Olympus.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
I want to drink the knowledge of Pythagorus's theorem.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
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.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Soul mates recognise one another's vibration. They instantly fuse to the life force that surrounds their core of being.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
The thought of you makes my days brighter and my nights filled with dreams.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
All paths lead me to you.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Feel my presence. Recognise my soul. Love my heart.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Forever and always from me to you. My love is pure, my love is true. It is gifted to none other than you.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
I will gladly spend the rest of my days learning your secrets.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Colour me with you're intentions.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
You are a God among men and I am you're queen of hearts.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
She drinks in his nakedness. Her sixth sense of knowing assures her that he is the one she has been waiting for all her life.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Some mysteries are meant to stay that way.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Right time, right place, right moment.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Twin flames burn eternal. Destine to shine bright in a united embrace that is set to last for an eternity.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
You are the keeper of my eternal secrets.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
We will never have an expiration date. Our love is destined to exist forever.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
I want to be owned by you.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
By the grace of god I feel you.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
She listens closely to the silence as though the sounds just beneath the surface are awaiting to release the significance of a moment.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Climb greater heights to obtain a new perspective.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Tell me you're truth. I'm listening.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Forever thine, forever mine.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Her thought encased in a cocoon of desire. She allows the streams of sunlight to warm the core of her being while she waits for metamorphous.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Her soul whispers to his, "Take me. I am ready.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Tis the moment where a decision is set to alter the course of her destiny. She walks toward the light where he patiently awaits her arrival.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Love one another gently.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
To catch you're elusive dreams you must be prepared to track it to the ends of the earth. Let nothing stop you're pursuit of dreams.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
You are encased in my heart.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Nothing in her world aligns to the surreality of her dreams. She can feel his presence, his warmth, his depth of intent pressing against her.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
He wants her to want him with the same intensity. She looks upon him with lusts draw and whispers, "Take me, I am yours.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Luck plays no part in the divinity of the moment that is set to transpire and make two unite into one burning flame of eternal love.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
I can resist everything but the temptation of you.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
The thought of you makes my heart melt.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Thank you for existing.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
You are the missing piece of my heart and soul. United we are now whole.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
I want you to be happy and for me to be part of that happiness.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
I yearn to taste my desire on your lips.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Dance with me through moments of surreality. We are one.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
The measure of space & time creates an echo of haunting distance between us, yet we are close, we are united in the love we forge together.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
I love you more than the cookie monster loves cookies.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
You make me want to be a better than I am today.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
You became the sonnet that was etched in my minds eye. Existing outside the dreams we shared in the presence of our eternal love.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
I want to explore every aspect of you.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Beyond the mask she is witness to his glorious soul. Exposed to the elements, she warms her skin in his light and essence of being.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Blessed are those whose hearts are filled with the warmth of love from another.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
I love the way you make me feel. I was incomplete without you.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
I want to be tantric with you.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
I will never want for more. You are my totality.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Christianity, according to the word of the Savior Himself. He deigned to say: not the righteous have I come to call, but sinners to salvation; there is more joy in heaven over one who repents than over ninety righteous ones. Likewise concerning the sinful woman who touched His feet, He deigned to say to the Pharisee Simon: to one who has love, a great debt is forgiven, but from one who has no love, even a small debt will be demanded. From these judgments a Christian should bring himself to hope and joy, and not in the least accept an inflicted despair. Here one needs the shield of faith.
— Letters of St. Herman of Alaska
Paint me by numbers and colour me in watercolour half tones.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Forever present, always knowing that you are the only one for me.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Eternally the embers glow masterfully fueled by lovers passion.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
I want to drink from you're life force.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Every song is a story unfolding.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
I will never leave you for I am intertwined in the fabric of you're being and my life blood's essence pulsates through your'e veins.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Drink from my emotional offerings.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
How do we handle feelings? What significance should we attach to them? If we want to keep our feelings from deceiving and defeating us, we must make some tough choices in our lives. We must trust God to keep our feelings under His control. We must make a choice to rejoice, and we must do it constantly. Feelings go where our thoughts and choices take them. So we can have confidence that God will use our choice and release to us the feelings that we need.
— George Foster, Amazing Peace-PI
Feelings are involuntary reactions, so God does not say, "Feel joy." He says, "Rejoice!" It's a choice.
— George Foster, Amazing Peace-PI
Christians know that joy is more than a feeling or an on-again, off-again sentiment that changes according to the circumstances they face. Followers of Jesus Christ distinguish between lasting joy and situational happiness. Fun and joy are not necessarily synonymous. We believe we can experience inner joy with no special external stimulus to make us happy.
— George Foster, Amazing Peace-PI
Choose your battles wisely. After all, life isn't measured by how many times you stood up to fight. It's not winning battles that makes you happy, but it's how many times you turned away and chose to look into a better direction. Life is too short to spend it on warring. Fight only the most, most, most important ones, let the rest go.
— C. JoyBell C.
She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves,so we're able to forgive them.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
The dance between darkness and light will always remain— the stars and the moon will always need the darkness to be seen, the darkness will just not be worth having without the moon and the stars.
— C. JoyBell C.
Sometimes, you may think you have fallen into an abyss...when in fact, you've just descended to the roots...of the tree of life! Somewhere along your climb, you got lost amongst the branches, and lost in the darkness of the branches, the only way to find the straight way up would be to return to the roots! And from there amongst the roots, you will be able to look straight up and see the top again! And begin your ascent!
— C. JoyBell C.
You can feel anything. All is free for you to feel. But I guarantee you that if you allow yourself to feel envy and then to swim in it, that envy will destroy you and the people around you. Envy is unlike anger. Envy is not a right wing nor a left wing, it is not on either end of the balancing beam. Nobody needs it and I can assure you that once you give yourself to it, you will be eaten up. Envy can even eat up nations, casting them up against each other and pull a whole nation down into an internal collapse.
— C. JoyBell C.
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
— Lucille Ball
Remember that when you think you are seeing giants, they may not be giants at all; perhaps it is you who is the dwarf.
— C. JoyBell C.
Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.
— Ismat Ahmed Shaikh
Love is the process of melting into the other
— Radhe Maa
People will be jealous of you for anything. Do bad and they will be jealous of you for being bad, do good and they will be jealous of you for being good, pull yourself up out of the ashes and they will be jealous of your strength, work hard and succeed and they will be jealous of your perseverance, buy new shoes and people will want to steal them, grow your hair long and people with want to cut it, laugh out loud and people will be jealous of your reasons for laughing. The truth is that envy is not because of you; but envy is in the eye of the beholder!
— C. JoyBell C.
Too many people are endowed with a feeling of entitlement, but born without God-given empathy.
— C. JoyBell C.
Live alone if staying together seems lifeless
— Munia Khan
Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The pause .... where wisdom has space to appear
— Les Dossey
Don't wait for the right conditions. All you need for your growth is available to you in this moment
— Radhe Maa
...hearing again the words from the Gullah woman, All shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone.
— Karen   White, The Time Between
Plough your fields, cast your seeds, the rains will come when they please.
— Radhe Maa
What does it mean to be cultured? Who is the cultured person? The cultured individual is not defined nor determined by status in society nor by wealth; but the cultured individual is determined and defined by his or her sense for the art of life. And what is the art of life? The art of life is the reflection of the mind and the soul upon the world, upon other people, upon the respect and understanding of other people and upon the things that are in this world and beyond. There is a joy that is always sought in beautiful things. Being cultured is being conscious, reflective, understanding, feeling, aware. Knowing how to feel, to listen, to understand. A desire to find or to create joy in many things— that is the art of life. And these things define a cultured person.
— C. JoyBell C.
If a lion invites you to dinner, turn down the offer, no matter how hungry you are.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget.
— Gabriel García Márquez
If you waste time watering a fruitless tree, fruitful ones may die of thirst.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A lion's greater talents are revealed in the jungle, not in the circus.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The quickest way to find honey is to follow bees.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree's beauty lies in its branches, but its strength lies in its roots.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Learning how to cut trees down is intelligence
—  learning how to grow them is wisdom.
Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
— Pythagoras
An original pebble is better than a counterfeit diamond.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If a lion takes its advice from sheep, it will go hungry.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you live long enough & have changed enough diapers like I have raising 6 whole grown adult children one-at-a-time; you ought to be able to call out bullshit blindly, in about a million different ways & plays. My potty-training days have long been over...so what fool retards at their wisdom stage? For this chief reason, I could show you better than tell you, try as you might: you cannot change grown ups diapers in life, who think you don't know how 'full of shit' they are today.
— Tracey Bond
When sheep grow blind, it is only wolves that rejoice.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you place two flowers in the same vase, they will not argue over who is more beautiful.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A wolf can only curse a lion when surrounded by its peers.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Counting your chickens before they hatch is only wise if God has told you how many will survive.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree’s nature does not change because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
To learn how to swim, observe fish; how to hunt, observe lions; how to work, observe bees, and how to live, observe sages.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you hide honey in the dark, bees will still find it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you can't climb a tree, shake it, and its fruit will fall.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A fish is a genius in water, an eagle is a genius in air, a fox is a genius on land, and a sage is a genius in life. 
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A wolf's thoughts are seldom far from its appetite.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The hen that lays the most eggs deserves the most food.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The earliest bird gets the worm only if the worm is stupid enough to show up.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
An apple only falls far from its tree when carried away by divine winds.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The day i am not listening to music is the very next day of my last day.
— Haritha Velpureddy
You think i do not know how to live, but i think you are not even living, you just exist.
— Haritha Velpureddy
We follow the rules of Jungle.survival, survival, survival.
— Haritha Velpureddy
If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Be humble to those who praise you, pleasant to those who honor you, kind to those who cherish you, good to those who love you, and generous to those who adore you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A wolf only attends a rabbit’s funeral to eat its young.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
One who wishes to cross the ocean first builds a ship.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Beatings from truth are better than kisses from lies.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A wound won't heal if you keep touching it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge never grows old
—  it is eternally young.
The world’s greatest classroom has no walls: nature.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the power of the stars over our minds, if there were no night?
— C. JoyBell C.
Thank God with endless when puts you in the crisis because will tests you many examinations one of them is to identify your enemies and allies
— Kamaran Ihsan Salih
It is difficult to fill a broken vessel, and impossible to fill a leaking one.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A sage is a library whose bookshelves are in his soul.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is better to be a star for one day than a moon for a lifetime.
— Matshona Dhliwayo