#joy

The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living. ↗

— David O. McKay

#joy #inspirational

Tomorrow always has the potential for sunshine. ↗

— Kehinde Sonola

#inspirational #joy #life #nature #spirituality

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

— Jennifer Skiff

#inspirational #joy #smile #inspirational

From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy ↗

— Carolyn Marsden

#hope #inspirational #joy #inspirational

You're not like other Wasps." "Aren't I?" Aagen smiled, but it was a painful smile. "No doubt you've killed my kinsmen by the score." "A few," Salma allowed. "Well, next time you shed my kinden's blood, think on this: we are but men, no less nor more than other men, and we strive and feel joy and fail as men have always done. We live in the darkness that is the birthright of us all, that of hurt and ignorance, only sometimes... sometimes there comes the sun." He let the bowl fall from his fingers to the floor, watching it spin and settle, unbroken. ↗

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

#aagen-s-joy #birthright #darkness #grief-in-chains #here-comes-the-sun

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression. ↗

— Criss Jami

#consistency #contentment #determination #discontentment #finite

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself. ↗

— Criss Jami

#considerate #delight #favor #god #happiness

Cunt again? It was odd how men like Suggs used that word to demean women when it was the only part of a woman they valued. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#asha-greyjoy #dance-with-dragons #song-of-ice-and-fire #men

Let me start by saying that I do not enjoy nor relish the partisan role of attack dog. I never found any fun in that. I don't think it's constructive. I don't intend to become that here in the Senate. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#attack #become #constructive #dog #enjoy

The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men, for we are, that we might have joy, and be free. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#pleasure #smile #men