Joy Quotes
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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
"Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate."
"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."
"Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living."
"I have drunken deep of joy,And I will taste no other wine tonight."
"He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars."
"Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens"
"Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”But I say unto you, they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed."
"If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile."
"If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself."
"Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends."
"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."
"When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them."
"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair..."
"You're insane!"she shouted."Pretty cool, huh?""No!"Tally yelled. "Why didn't you tell me it was broken?"Shay shrugged. "More fun that way?""More fun?"Her heart beating fast,her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief and...joy."Well, kind of. But you suck!"
"The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content."
"I’ll be your Dostoevsky, if you’ll be my Tolstoy. Our life together will be so full of despair that death will be like a gulag full of joy."
"As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning."
"There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead."
"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)"
"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."
"...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment."
"you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets."
"My soul doth magnify the Lord,And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour."
"I’m passionate about being compassionate. It takes a lot to give of yourself, and that’s why it’s such a gift—for both the recipient and the giver."
"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."
"I was so depressed I thought about committing TV. I mean suicide. In the end I decided to binge on @Netflix and it really made me feel better."
"It’s better if you don’t come at all, then come and act like you don’t want to be here. The same applies to there, when I’m there, which is also confusingly here, though it’s not here it’s there."
"Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling"
"When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you."
"No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping."
"After soul searching, I found myself. Then I found myself giving of myself to a charity that finds missing children. It's great to be found."
"Return something not for the possibility of a reward, but for the joy of giving a gift which you did not have to pay for."
"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind."
"The lesson will always repeat itself, unless you see yourself as the problem--not others."
"Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands."
"The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being."
"God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest."
"The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us."
"Friendship is thinking of the other person first."
"Joy came always after pain."
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."
"If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way."
"The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go."
"In the midst of happiness or despairin sorrow or in joyin pleasure or in pain:Do what is right and you will be at peace."
"Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!"
"Is it better to be feared or loved? Loved, because people associate with you because they want to, not because they need to. We need to eat beets, but we want to eat cake. Be the cake of the world."
"We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn't we? The wonderful thing is that when we start spreading joy, we begin to actually experience more joy in our lives too!"
"If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship."
"Veganism is not a "sacrifice."It is a joy."
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