There was no point in telling my father. He'd never let me quit after only one day. He couldn't help me and he'd make some terrible blunder if he tried. Parents are too innocent for the Boschian landscapes of middle school.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an ocean in a drop.
I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some.
I have an active imagination.
“I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.”
“Live joy. Be kind. Love unconditionally.”
“Joy came always after pain.”
“Happiness is personal joy of attainment of peace.”
If you retain the joyous aftereffects of meditation throughout the day, or part of the day, you will see that this joy will correctly guide you in everything. Saints are guided by this joy, in the consciousness of which no erroneous actions are possible. Retain the acquired joy of meditation throughout the day.
“We talked about the joy -- and it really is a joy -- of living in New Hope. It is a place that is so welcoming no matter what kind of person you happen to be.”
“Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures”
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.
Those who understand God's sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for they see that their suffering is not without purpose.
Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life’s problems when you count them as joy.
I am a limitless being of oneness. I am the physical embodiment of joy. Anything is possible in my life. My true source is joy.