Joy Quotes - Page 17

We know how to work hard. We know how to go for the goal. We know how to achieve, achieve, achieve but we don’t know how to enjoy the journey.

Suzette R. Hinton

The University Student who accessed JoyI once asked several university students at a mindfulness workshop why they were so stressed. Below is a conversation I had with a young student:“Why do you get yourself so stressed out?” “Because I have so much work to do in order to pass my masters degree”, replied the student.“Is the degree important to you?”“Of course it’s important. If I pass, I’ll have the chance to work for a law firm and eventually become a junior partner”.“Why do you want to become a junior partner?”“So that I can work my way up the ladder, have more influence and earn a lot of money”. “Why do you want to have a lot of influence and earn a lot of money?” I asked.“If I have a lot of money and influence, I will have enough financial muscle to provide everything for my future wife and children.” “Do you have your own family yet?” “Not at the moment. I’m single but I want to prepare myself”, the student replied. “So, why do you want a partner and children?” “Because, I’ll feel complete and satisfied”, the student replied. “Do you mean that you will feel happier if you have all of these things?”“Yeah, that’s it! I want to be happy and feel good about myself. I want happiness”. “Why don’t you just decide to be happy right now rather than spending most of your time desperately hoping to find happiness in something that hasn’t happened yet? You can still create your own reality and meet your dream partner but you can start to feel happy now before you meet her”.This conversation helped the student to see the futility of booking appointments in the future to be happy, when he could consciously make that choice in the present moment and also that he would have a much better chance of attracting his dream career and partner if he was vibrating joy in the present moment. The wonderful realization of mindful living is that we do not need an excuse to be happy and serene. Being joyful comes as a result of being mindful. Nothing more is required from us apart from honouring the nowness of life. What a startling revelation!!

Christopher Dines

This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly. xo

Jill Telford

Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.

Charlotte Eriksson

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

Walt Whitman

When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.

Seth Adam Smith

Many are never satisfied. They always want more ; and then when they get more, they are still not content. I think mostly because they are trying to keep up with others. You have to live within your means or you'll find yourself trying to dig your way out of a hole. Whatever is meant for you is for you. Don't lose yourself trying to live another's life

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.

Richelle E. Goodrich

If you are standing in one place waiting for something to change, you may be there for a while. You've got to move. Step up and take a swing. Make something happen

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Do not be ashamed of your past. Learn from those experiences and move forward in your life. Teach others of the possibilities of change & living victoriously. You are a survivor.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

They may throw sticks, stones, or bricks, but nothing they do will hurt you. You are protected by God. He is forever got you covered and the enemy is defeated. Their hatred towards you is a reflection of the evilness on their inside which is slowly destroying them. A person like that must deal with the matters of their heart.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Be aware of yourself without thinking or looking in the mirror

Bert McCoy

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. But that is the most that hope can do for us - to make some hardship lighter. When I think deeply about the nature of hope, I see something tragic. Since we cling to our hope in the future, we do not focus our energies and capabilities on the present moment. We use hope to believe something better will happen in the future, that we will arrive at peace, or the Kingdom of God. Hope becomes a kind of obstacle. If you can refrain from hoping, you can bring yourself entirely into the present moment and discover the joy that is already here.

Thich Nhat Hanh

And in myself, too, many things have perished which, I imagined, would last for ever, and new structures have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are difficult of comprehension.

Marcel Proust

listen thoughtfullysounds of laughtergaiety and melancholy galore

Archana Chaurasia Kapoor

Where ignorance is bliss, awareness is joy, and self-awareness is orgasmic.

Nityananda Das

The emotional scars of our mistakes will teach us far more than the joy of our successes

Steven Aitchison

As a being and life form, all of mankind must seek the absolute sunshine of being. To do otherwise is to deny the essence of life; which is growth in body mind and soul. These in turn reflects Self love.

Auliq-Ice

I have found contentment and joy in being exactly where God wants me to be, and that is what makes me happy.

Megan Carson

It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or situation, which influences your emotions and actions. Your choice is to change the meaning you gave it or to change your response, in order to create the outcome you want.

Shannon L. Alder

I would venture to say that approaching the Christian Story from this direction, it has long been my feeling (a joyous feeling) that God redeemed the corrupt makingcreatures, men, in a way fitting to this aspect, as to others, of their strange nature. The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy-stories. They contain many marvels—peculiarly artistic, beautiful, and moving: ‘mythical’ in their perfect, self-contained significance; and among the marvels is the greatest and most complete conceivable eucatastrophe. But this story has entered History and the primary world; the desire and aspiration of sub-creation has been raised to the fulfillment of Creation. The Birth of Christ is the eucatastrophe of Man’s history. The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation. This story begins and ends in joy. It has pre-eminently the ‘inner consistency of reality’. There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none which so many sceptical men have accepted as true on its own merits. For the Art of it has the supremely convincing tone of Primary Art, that is, of Creation. To reject it leads either to sadness or to wrath.

J.R.R. Tolkien

photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself…

Rebecca McNutt

The cure is as simple as this: Live your words and live your belief system.

Shannon L. Alder

Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people--the one people want you to be and the one you want to be.

Shannon L. Alder

Your current situation = the life expectations you have accepted as completed, unless you change your comfort zone to create a better life.

Shannon L. Alder

What she liked was simply life. "That's what i did it for," she said, speaking aloud to life... Could any man understand what she meant, either, about life? …But to go deeper, beneath what people said, and these judgments, how superficial, how fragmentary, they are. In her own mind now, what did it mean to her, this thing she called life? It was an offering…it was her gift.

Virginia Woolf

...there was something in the texture of the weave that felt happy: theecho of a memory so far down in his soul it was all emotion, aburst of colour and warmth, adrift from time and place.

Alexia Casale

Once I started trying to give positive reviews, though, I began to understand how much happiness I took from the joyous ones in my life---and how much effort it must take for them to be consistently good=tempered and positive. It is easy to be heavy; hard to be light. We nonjoyous types suck energy and cheer from the joyous ones; we rely on them to buoy us with their good spirit and to cushion our agitation and anxiety. At the same time, because of a dark element in human nature, we're sometimes provoked to try to shake the enthusiastic, cheery folk out of their fog of illusion---to make them see that the play was stupid, the money was wasted, the meeting was pointless. Instead of shielding their joy, we blast it.

Gretchen Rubin

For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse.

Emil M. Cioran

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Happiness must be a jealous pet. When you try seeking yours out, it tends to keep hidden. But as soon as you turn to help a friend find his, your own happiness comes bounding out of the darkness like some crazed animal.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other.

Paula Heller Garland

God is the soul of the universe.

Swami Dhyan Giten

The truth is tucked inside of me, it is what I want the world to see. But do youy see it in me, oh just let it all be. I am happy being me.

Cindy M. Miller

It's love for my profession that keep me coming back, not the money. I'd work as hard to make $50.00 as I would $5,000.00. I never scoff at an opportunity to earn a living, regardless of the size of the carrot at the end of the stick.

Scott Joffe

Ten greatest gifts; love, joy, peace, patience, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You are my wine, my joy,My garden, my springtime,My slumber, my repose,Without you, I can't cope.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?

Shannon L. Alder

To develop understanding and compassion for who we are as introverts, we must be able to explore who we are, what makes us happy, what makes us unhappy, and what oursubsequent needs are.

Aletheia Luna

Happiness is the inner perception of calmness, tranquility and joy.

Debasish Mridha

What separates people who made their dreams come true is not setting goals to achieve a life the way they expect it to be, but how they expect to be, in order to achieve it.

Shannon L. Alder

Do not worry yourself so much. Take joy in things that are joyful, there is no harm in that.

Josi S. Kilpack

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

Criss Jami

Once you realize that life and love are not things you can possess but forces that emanate through us and through all creation, then you can begin to appreciate the miracle you are a part of. You can release the burden and appreciate what you have had, have now and will have. Only trying to hold on to what you do not have causes pain. Letting go permits you to experience the incredible joy that comes to you at each and every moment.

James Rozoff

Life is so funny sometimes that you just have to laugh.

Rebecca McNutt

In the very center of your being, life begins in silence and in joy.

Debasish Mridha

Poetry is Life. We experience poetry from the time we awake each morning and inhale that fresh breath of air. You are living poetry. Poetry is not defined by the laws of man. Inspiration is the key.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Find comfort in little things and joy in unexpected moments.

Holly Elissa Bruno

To feel the joy of life, love what you do.

Debasish Mridha

True joy comes from knowing Christ personally and from depending on His strength rather than your own.

Jim George

The rule for J.O.Y is Jesus, Others and You. You can’t have a perfect joy if all you think about is about how to groom your life!

Israelmore Ayivor

May you fill your days with love, laughter, and joy.

Debasish Mridha

Joy is not something you look for, it is simply something you have to choose to apply.

Réné Gaudette

...there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent...

Jeremiah Burroughs

Always give away your pure love without expecting any love in return. The universe will fill your heart with an abundance of love, joy and happiness again and again.

Debasish Mridha

Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life.

Debasish Mridha

Every moment is precious and beautiful, filled with love, joy, peace, tranquility, and serenity.

Debasish Mridha

Let us talk about our love, joy and happiness. Let us forgive and forget talking about misery and sadness.

Debasish Mridha

There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.

Dante Alighieri

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