Joy Quotes - Page 2

Oh yes," said Jana. "You want the birdbath." She let him down onto the rim of the birdbath, then watched as he dipped his head, lowered his chest into the water, and raised it. Having finished his bath, he did a dance of sheer joy, flapping his wings and shaking off the water in a circle of drops. "He enjoys life," said a voice. Mr. Powell the optometrist, a closed umbrella in hand, was letting his two dachshunds chase each other around the park. "As do your dogs," said Jana. "Yes," said Mr. Powell,"they have fun in a simpler and more joyous way than most humans do. Their pleasures seem more reliable. All you have to do is say the word 'walk' and they're wiggling from head to toe....

Betsy Woodman

The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.

Caryll Houselander

Fear will paralyze you and prohibit growth

Michelle Cook-Hall

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

Aberjhani

To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow from which to distinguish the sound of joy.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Cornell Woolrich

Because life is a symphony it must have its C Minor. Days there be when we hear only a discord of sharps and flats, and we wonder whether harmony will ever be restored. On other days we hear only an ominous, deep strain which seems to say that hope is fled. But why this chill despair? Symphonies are a blending of many tones, high and low, over and under, major and minor. One day cannot make a life a whole any more than shadows can make a picture or minor notes a symphony. We need to hear life's song, not as the discord of a single day, but as the completed harmony of all the years. Then will today's sorrow and tomorrow's disappointment ring forth in major key as glorious melody.

W. Waldemar W. Argow

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy

Kahlil Gibran

Wherefore is there ice and snow, chilling winds and bitter nights? Is it to mock the earth for its sunshine? No, not so! We forget that sunlight is impossible without shadows; that for every day there is a night; that for every joy there is a pain; that for every laugh there is a sob. Progress is never a straight line upward; always it is down and then around.

W. Waldemar W. Argow

For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

Only tears can understand the joy of sorrow.

Cecil Thounaojam

Do whatever you do joyfully, because discipline - the true meaning of the word - is characterized by doing something with joy. Even the little things: see them as an opportunity, a blessing, a meditation, as spiritual practice. Then, even if it's difficult, it will be good. If you use hardships in a proper way, they can even bring peace

Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle

Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask ourselves: What about me? What does that say about my life, my pains, my anguish?

Azar Nafisi

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.

George MacDonald

alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

Virginia Woolf

We know God by cultivating a relationship, not by understanding a concept.The relation constitutes the very subjectivity of of our existence. We participate in existence consciously and rationally, with subjective self-knowledge and identity, because the erotic drive of our nature is transformed into a personal relation when there arises in the space of the Other the first signifier of desire: the maternal presence. The subject is born with love's first leap of joy.

Christos Yannaras

An ounce of joy is the equivalent of a ton of happiness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Tears of joy are better than smiles of sorrow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A step towards love is a mile towards joy.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Tears of joy are lighter than smiles of sorrow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love's key unlocks joy's door.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Happiness does not come from having much, but from being content, even when you have little.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Spend as much time as possible with positive, joyful people and as little time as possible with negative, unhappy people.

Molly Friedenfeld

Swami Dhyan Giten

Count your summers, not your winters.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Stained-glass windows glowed faintly in the moonlight streaming through, illuminating the sculpture of Christ on the cross that hung above the altar. It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Then the sculpture seemed to move, and Christ’s body twisted on the cross to look directly at him. ...Jesus, the son of God and his saviour, seemed be smiling at him.

Phillip W. Simpson

Assuming is a form of giving away your power to another regarding an outcome that concerns you.

Molly Friedenfeld

We live by choice and by necessity. We choose the mechanisms that are essential to ensure satisfaction of our baseline survival. What labor we willingly endure in order to meet our minimalistic subsistence requirements and what activities we elect to pursue in order to mollify our desire for living joyfully and attain self-realization defines our essential self’s core personality.

Kilroy J. Oldster

No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy. We do not live alone - in our city, our nation, or our world. There is no dividing line between our prosperity and our neighbor's wretchedness. 'Love they neighbor' is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection.

Thomas S. Monson

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

Albert Schweitzer

Joy is a choice, not an outcome.

Beth Johnson

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness that made one smile, then.

Anne Holm

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

Jennifer Skiff

Elle wondered if heart could smile, because she felt that her joy reached her inner being.

Carla Reighard

Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions and habits and demeanors and convictions and beliefs. The more admirable the hero is and the more intense your admiration is, the more profound will be your transformation. In the case of Jesus, he is infinitely admirable, and our admiration rises to the most absolute worship. Therefore, when we behold him as we should, the change is profound.

John Piper

...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.

John Piper

If opposites attract why is the church trying so hard to mirror the world?

Lakesha Ruise

Speak it till you reach it!

Michelle Cook-Hall

Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows.

Jeremias Gotthelf

Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that's messy but not hurting anybody.

Vinita Hampton Wright

If I were in his(Prophet Muhammad) presence, I would wash his feet.

Hercules

This, then, is true liberty: the joy that comes in doing what is right. At the same time, it is also devoted service in obedience to righteous precept.

Augustine of Hippo

I had a magical day during one Sunday when I walked out in nature. On the outside this day only consisted of taking a walk out in the beautiful sunny weather and cleaning my apartment, but on the inside everything suddenly changed. When I walked out in nature in the sunny weather, a silent explosion suddenly happened within me and my whole perception of reality changed. In a single moment, everything had changed, although nothing on the outside had really changed. Everything on the outside was exactly as before, but my way of seeing had changed. The difference was that before I did not see and now I could see. My eyes were open. Suddenly I was one with everything, one with the stones, one with the trees and one with the people that I meet on my walk. My heart danced with joy together with a feeling of: ”I am God”. Not that I am the creator of everything, but that I am part of the Whole, part of the divine. It felt like coming home, that Existence is my home. I also saw that even if the people that I meet did not understand that they are a part of the Whole, they still are a part of the Whole. I felt the waves of Existence in my own heart and being and I felt like a small wave in a great ocean. It gave a taste of the eternal, a taste of the limitless and boundless source of creativity. In just a few moments, I learnt more than during 20 years in university. Wisdom is basically the understanding that we all are part of the Whole. We are all small rivers moving towards the ocean. I laughed at the fact that enlightenment is really our innate birthright, and that small children already live in this mystical unity with the Whole.

Swami Dhyan Giten

Embrace your sacred existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Happiness doesn't always come in pink. Learn to appreciate the rainbow.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Last night I danced. My body rose from its slump for the first time since the beginning of sorrows—my fingers beckoning to the stars at arm's length, back arching as tingles bubbled up my spine, hips caught in a silent tempo while on tiptoe I twirled in endless euphoric circles. It didn't matter that you loved me or that you didn't. For I was wanted by the gods last night, their seraphs and muses descending on moonbeams into my midst, caressing my face and gliding their spirited arms about my waist, lifting my toes from the soil that I might feel what it is to fly without heaviness of heart. I danced with them under the glow of a loyal moon. For one brief, visceral dance I joyed as Heaven joys—in endless bliss.And the universe cherished me.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Wanting help, I reached out to serve. Seeking happiness, I smiled and offered comfort. Yearning for love, I showed love. And now I understand. My life was never about me, it was always about you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Happiness is seeing blessings in disguise, beauty under camouflage, and love amid conflict.

Richelle E. Goodrich

To wish for the happiest days is to wish for a season of sorrow; for it is only after prolonged, wintry darkness that the summer sun appears to shine at its brightest.

Richelle E. Goodrich

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

Rosamunde Pilcher

A smile is the most beautiful thing you can wear.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You don’t have to wait for a storm to pass to paint your own rainbow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is astonishing to realize that growing up actually means to become one with Existence. It means to find the whole Existence within myself, it means to discover that Existence is alive in my own heart and being. The song of a bird echoes my own inner voice, the beauty of a flower reflects my own inner beauty, a dog becomes an expression of my own unconditional love and friendship, the majestic mountains create an exstatic joy, and I discover all the shining stars of the sky within my own heart. It is to realize that the whole Existence is alive, and that the underlying thread of consciousness is God.

Swami Dhyan Giten

Any time a stipulation on love is present, unconditional love is not.

Molly Friedenfeld

When someone wants to give you a “piece of their mind,” ask them to give you “peace from their heart” instead.

Molly Friedenfeld

There is no fear in love. Live with the foundation of LOVE in your heart and you will become FEARLESS.

Molly Friedenfeld

If we could all love each and every person that crosses our path a little bit more, we could attain inner peace with the knowledge that many people on this planet would be hurting a whole lot less.

Molly Friedenfeld

The only thing that keeps us from a place of joy is an illusion, the illusion of fear.

Molly Friedenfeld

A soul must gain wisdom by gathering information in whatever way works best. It is impossible to force wisdom on another, because each person has a choice to determine how and if it will be received.

Molly Friedenfeld

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