#joy

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ↗

— Rumi

#rumi #sorrow #transformation #space

Happily-ever-afters don't come in happily-every-days. They are found at the end of challenges-ever-met, promises-ever-kept, and tears-ever-wept. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#happiness #joy #richelle #richelle-goodrich #richelle-goodrich

The pleasures of being a novelist are many.  But the greatest by far is the manner in which I live through my characters; experiencing every detail of their story as it unfolds gradually and personally within my own creative psyche.  I'm like a cat with untold lives, because each new book is my rebirth. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#enjoyment #novelist #pleasure #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance. ↗

— Robert Blair

#how #joys #painful #remembrance #return

I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body. ↗

— Rachel Blanchard

#activities #body #enjoy #fit #good

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. ↗

— Golda Meir

#artist #bouquets #enjoys #every #glorious

Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually. ↗

— James Lafferty

#although #as far as #between #each #eventually

I enjoy catching our show whenever I can. It does get very weird to watch myself, it's always been that way, but at the same time, it's part of my job to see what kind of job I'm doing and to get a perspective on where I'm taking the character. ↗

— James Lafferty

#been #catching #character #does #doing

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. ↗

— Jane Austen

#behavior #employment #enjoyment #manners #propriety

My Food Network shows, 'Emeril Live' and 'Essence of Emeril,' are not in production right now, but I wouldn't say that I'm necessarily leaving Food Network. I have a lot of television still in me. I enjoy teaching people, so it's just a matter of time before I do something new. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#enjoy #essence #food #food network #i