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Every word appears in our mind as a composite of everything else we associate with it. We by default personify every word, because in each of our minds, when we think of a certain person, there is one word that is the biggest part of that composite image. If I said swimming, singing or story telling each word is personified by someone different in each of our minds. It is very important to not let hate, treachery or any negative thing be personified by anyone in our mind, also not to give any reason that we would personify them in someone else’s mind. Any space in our hearts we allow hate to occupy, is space that could be filled with love. There will come a time in every person’s life, when they realize they are woefully wanting in the love they have cultivated in their heart. How amazing to think of the contrary: that you personified love in someone’s mind. What better compliment could we ever hear, than for someone to say, that we are their personification of love? I think it’s something that is not too often said, but oh that it was, and more, that there were more reason to say it. My wish is that every person could wake up in the morning with a prayer, that they may have the courage, diligence and desire to love more truly, sincerely and objectively; that every night we reflect on what we may have represented by our thoughts, words and deeds,” Jefferson concluded.
— Michael Brent Jones, Dinner Party
True joy does not discount real suffering
—  it shines all the greater in the midst of it.
It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
To feel the joy too much:let us trust too much,let us love too much, let us hope too muchand let us belong too much.
— Debasish Mridha
Take your million smiles through billion miles
—  life will never get boring for you even for a while.
You have never let me down. You are always there for me. You are the best part of me, who I want to be, and every time I look at you I can hardly believe how lucky I am to be with you and I hope you know that.
— Dawn Metcalf, Invisible
Spring has a secret to tell us: life is for beauty and life is for joy.
— Debasish Mridha
Every new friend is a fresh flower with endless beauty, love and joy.
— Debasish Mridha
Surrender to love to feel the joy of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Joy, you are my everything. You are everything that matters to me. Tell me that you understand. Tell me that you feel this, too.
— Dawn Metcalf, Invisible
When you spend time in the presence of God, you will experience everlasting peace and joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Ah! Let the soul dance with joyLet us sit in dark deep silencenow feel, see and enjoy!
— Debasish Mridha
Greater than all the joy of success and victory is the joy of true love and the of giving of yourself.
— Debasish Mridha
My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, sharing and loving in order to feel the deepest joy of life.
— Debasish Mridha
You are most beautiful when your eyes are glowing with kindness and joy.
— Debasish Mridha
The most inspirational feeling I can come up with is.......The feeling of presence.
— Matthew Donnelly
We are above all things loved--that is the good news of the gospel--and loved not just the way we turn up on Sundays in our best clothes and on our best behavior and with our best feet forward, but loved as we alone know ourselves to be, the weakest and shabbiest of what we are along with the strongest and gladdest. To come together as people who believe that just maybe this gospel is actually true should be to come together like people who have just won the Irish Sweepstakes. It should have us throwing our arms around each other like people who have just discovered that every single man and woman in those pews is not just another familiar or unfamiliar face but is our long-lost brother and our long-lost sister because despite the fact that we have all walked in different gardens and knelt at different graves, we have all, humanly speaking, come from the same place and are heading out into the same blessed mystery that awaits us all. This is the joy that is so apt to be missing, and missing not just from church but from our own lives--the joy of not just managing to believe at least part of the time that it is true that life is holy, but of actually running into that holiness head-on.
— Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons
I am feeling more. I feel everything more. I cannot express it. I can hardly keep track of it all. It is you! All you! Everything!
— Dawn Metcalf, Invisible
When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities.
— Julie Anne Peters
Never let me lose you, Ink. Never let me screw this up. And never think for one moment that I don't love you, need you or want you with me.
— Dawn Metcalf, Invisible
The antidote to joy is dread.
— Sam Hamm, Batman: Blind Justice
I love you, Ink, and I want you-only you. Being strong doesn't mean I don't want you too. You are the only person who knows every part of my life, every part of me in it, the good and the bad and the horrible, and you still love me. You are always with me, even when you're not there. And when you're not there, I can feel it, like an empty space where you ought to be, and I can hardly wait until you're back to fill it again. Neither world feels like it fits, but we belong.
— Dawn Metcalf, Invisible
Embrace the Joy!
— D. Denise Dianaty, My Life In Poetry
We have the keys to open the Heavens door
—  Bible reading and prayer.
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, The Divine Comedy
The moment you feel joy, the moment you laugh and change your perception, you change your immunity, your body chemistry, and your whole well-being.
— Debasish Mridha
Do what gives you joy and you will enjoy what you do.
— Debasish Mridha
Be grateful that yesterday ended well
—  be thankful that today begun well
The universe created us for and with love, joy, charm and beauty; but we are always running behind what is dirty.
— Debasish Mridha
When you think of someone with love, your heart dances with joy.
— Debasish Mridha
Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy as long as you know how you should always destroy the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend who never stands up for you when you’re forced to bend
— Munia Khan
To feel pure joy, the road of peace is the only road we should walk.
— Debasish Mridha
Let me go where love is abundant, peace is plentiful, and joy is in the air.
— Debasish Mridha
If love and kindness is life's investment, then joy and happiness will be life's profit and dividend.
— Debasish Mridha
We are part of nature. We are here to bloom like a flower- to ornate the earth with beauty, love, joy, happiness, and care.
— Debasish Mridha
You are here to feel the joy of life by empowering, enabling, enlightening humanity so that humanity may find its own joy.
— Debasish Mridha
A tailwind, on the other hand, is one of the most beautiful experiences you can have on a bike. There’s no wind in my ears, so I hear everything around me. The chain purrs sweetly as it pulls the gears under the coaxing of my legs. The soft hiss of my tires on the smooth hard pavement, the sound of little critters scurrying in the desert around me as I pass. Smells aren’t as big a deal out here in the dry desert, but even the smells are more accessible in a tailwind, since I’m moving through air at a slower relative speed, and the smells linger around my face long enough to register and enjoy them.Relative progress, speed, sights, smells, sounds. It all goes together to create a gestalt for the ride that’s pure sweetness, and I never want it to end.Hozho.
— Neil M. Hanson, Pilgrim Wheels: Reflections of a Cyclist Crossing America
REPENT:FOR THE KINGDOM OF GODIS AT HANDThe whole message of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ are: Repent: For the Kingdom of God is at hand.But this message has been terrible misunderstood by the priests and the Christians.It is almost the same kind of people that crucified Jesus, which founded Christianity.The symbol for Christianity has also become the cross on which Jesus was crucified, which is a bit morbid.When you do not repent, your eyes will be filled with this world: the world of possession, the world of greed, the world of anger and hate, the world of ego and the world of hatred.Your eyes has to be completely cleansed before you can see the Kingdom of God.Repentance will open the door to God, to the divine.What does it mean to repent? Repentance does not mean to ask to be forgiven for making a mistake. This will not change you, it will not transform you.What John the Baptist and Jesus Christ mean by repentance is something totally different. They mean to look to the very roots of your being, of your existence. It is not about asking to repent for a specific act, it is about changing the whole quality of your being.It is about returning to your original being. Jesus says that the Kingdom of God is within you. The Kingdom of God is to return to your deepest core of being, which transforms you.It is to stand naked before God.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
Don't hide your emptiness. Fill it with love and give it away to fill your life with joy.
— Debasish Mridha
God is the soul of the universe.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
Life’s good when it’s lived for oneself
—  it’s great when lived for others. The true means of happiness is to lose your mind by thinking for others!
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, Is That All There Is...The Journey Within
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, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You are my wine, my joy,My garden, my springtime,My slumber, my repose,Without you, I can't cope.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of 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, Quiet Strength: Embracing, Empowering and Honoring Yourself as an Introvert
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, A Heart Revealed
I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.
— Criss Jami, Healology
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, Smog City
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, Release The Ink
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 Bare Bones Bible® Handbook for Teens: Getting to Know Every Book in the Bible
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, Leaders' Watchwords
May you fill your days with love, laughter, and joy.
— Debasish Mridha
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, Swann's Way
listen thoughtfullysounds of laughtergaiety and melancholy galore
— Archana Chaurasia Kapoor
Where ignorance is bliss, awareness is joy, and self-awareness is orgasmic.
— Nityananda Das, Divine Union
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, The Law of the Universe
I have found contentment and joy in being exactly where God wants me to be, and that is what makes me happy.
— Megan Carson, A Year of Blind Dates: A Single Girl's Search for "The One"
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, Tolkien on Fairy-stories
No one is ever a victim of life
—  we are all volunteering to grow.
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, Smog City
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, Mrs. Dalloway
...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, House of Windows
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, The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
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, Making Wishes
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, Making Wishes
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
There is an excitement in creating a life, rather than maintaining a life you are not excited about living.
— Shannon L. Alder
Socrates used to say, "Philosophers can be happy without music;" and Christians can be happier than philosophers when all outward causes of rejoicing are withdrawn.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Laughter is like a windshield wiper, it doesn't stop the rain but allows us to keep going.
— Auliq Ice
Becoming aware of the dearness in what might otherwise be regarded as mundane is the ultimate form of insight.
— L.M. Browning, Fleeting Moments of Fierce Clarity: Journal of a New England Poet
[A]ny ecstatic experience can be healing not just for you but for others. Therapy is good to help you think differently and break patterns of pessimistic thinking or negative self-talk. But we have to be joyful, dance, and bring pleasure into our lives deliberately.
— Christiane Northrup
The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Owning the sound--Wow!--that is what brings joy to every step. That is what causes people to wake up every morning excited about their day. That is what leaves them energized rather than exhausted like before. There is a sound. And as your coach, I help you to go from cosigning on everybody else’s sound to owning your own sound.
— Suzette R. Hinton
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, Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life
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, Eat, Pray, Love
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, Song of Myself
When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.
— Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless
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, Release The Ink
The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
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, Release The Ink
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, Sweet Destiny
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, Release The Ink
Be aware of yourself without thinking or looking in the mirror
— Bert McCoy
In the Light of your Wisdom, You Shine. In the Midst of your Truth, Your Faith is Evident. From inside your Spirit, You are Love.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light.
— Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless
Prayer still works, you need not be so quick to judge another person. You never know what they are going through. Instead, pray for them. Send encouragement their way.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
Uplift & Inspire, do not be envious of others success. You are given the same hours in a day. Make it worthwhile! Instead of focusing on what someone else is doing, pay attention to how you're living and make the best of life
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
In the deep places he gives thought to music great and terrible; and the echo of that music runs through all the veins of the world in sorrow and in joy; for if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomed at the foundations of the Earth.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Such is true joy’s absolute certainty,Its slow lit fuse that burns holesIn the shabby shroud of death forever.
— Scott Hastie
Even when you can't see, God is working it out. You should not be discouraged or give up hope. Keep the Faith! Your situation is not your destination. God will do what he promised, you just be ready
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
In lifting another person, we also lift ourselves.
— Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless
The truth is,’ replied Dantes, ‘that I am too happy for noisy mirth; ...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Every time I look into her eyes, I get a positive inspiration to serve humanity.
— Durgesh Satpathy
Our joy in life is inexorably determined by the degree to which we love.
— Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless
Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity for joy.
— Elizabeth George, Finding God's Path Through Your Trials: His Help for Every Difficulty You Face
The Spirit of Love, wherever it is, is its own blessing and happiness, because it is the truth and reality of God in the soul; and therefore is in the same joy of life, and is the same good to itself everywhere and on every occasion. Would you know the blessing of all blessings? It is this God of Love dwelling in your soul, and killing every root of bitterness, which is the pain and torment of every earthly, selfish love. For all wants are satisfied, all disorders of nature are removed, no life is any longer a burden, every day is a day of peace, everything you meet becomes a help to you, because everything you see or do is all done in the sweet, gentle element of Love.
— William Law
To Savor The Scene, A Book, or A Friend.
— Barbara Shook Hazen
Never seize to constantly remind yourself that your positive thoughts and beliefs are the pillars of your peace of mind.
While many of us admire nice things, materialism and suffering may share a connection. When we place a great deal of our happiness in material things, we run the great risk of losing our happiness when our material things become lost, old, or damaged. Toys break. Cars get dents. Clothes get ripped. Jewels get lost or stolen. Riches come and go.If we collect moments rather than things, these are ours to keep. If we redefine wealth by the amount of love and kindness we afford ourselves to give to others, we can transform our lives.
— Ann Brasco
We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others.
— Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless
how can i everbreathe normally againafter having been cradledby the kind of sorrowso silent, that it nourishesafter having been sweptby the kind of joyso absolute, that it wounds.
— Sanober  Khan, Turquoise Silence
Don't always seek the approval of others concerning your goals or dreams. Not everyone wants to see you succeed, just because they are not successful.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
The idea of Zen is to catch life as it flows. There is nothing extraordinary or mysterious about Zen. I raise my hand ; I take a book from the other side of the desk ; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighbouring wood: — in all these I am practising Zen, I am living Zen. No wordy discussions is necessary, nor any explanation. I do not know why — and there is no need of explaining, but when the sun rises the whole world dances with joy and everybody’s heart is filled with bliss. If Zen is at all conceivable, it must be taken hold of here.
— D.T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
Thoughts guide you everyday. They become your choices. If you're not happy with your life, change your thoughts. Think more positive.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
The Inner Self...What makes us who we areshould be glorifiedpersonifiedand sung unto the stars!
— Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
Tiny GigglesSilly giggles of laughterI store upon a shelfI give some to otherI save some for myselfI am rich beyond all measureThough not with worldly wealthI store up these treasuresFor my heart and soulful health.
— Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
When I speak of good hearing, I do not mean listening to others; I mean simply listening to yourself. When I speak of good eyesight, I do not mean looking at others; I mean simply looking at yourself. He who does not look at himself but looks at others, who does not get hold of himself but gets hold of others, is getting what other men have got and failing to get what he himself has got. He finds joy in what brings joy to other men, but finds no joy in what would bring joy to himself.
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
If I do depart this world out here, let it be known that I went out grinning will you, and loving it. LOVING IT.Steve, are you listening ? I FEEL GREAT. Life’s so joyous, so sad, so ephemeral, so crazy, so meaningless, so goddamn funny. This is paradise, and I wish I could give you some.
— Robyn Davidson
... ancient days of sorrowancient days of pain-heartaches of the pastslowly began to wane ...(from gleaning granules)
— Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
Lollypop...the passion contained merely kissesplaced upon lips, neck and cheekthese young lovers of the castleof which our fairytale speaks...
— Muse
Every creature thinks itself best in its own element, that is the place it thrives in, and enjoys its happiness in; now Christ is the element of a Christian.
— Richard Sibbes, Christ Is Best
Both joy and gratitude go hand in hand together. More grateful you are more joyful you will be.
— Vishwas Chavan
Heaven is not heaven without Christ. It is better to be in any place with Christ than to be in heaven itself without him. All delicacies without Christ are but as a funeral banquet. Where the master of the feast is away, there is nothing but solemnness. What is all without Christ? I say the joys of heaven are not the joys of heaven without Christ; he is the very heaven of heaven.
— Richard Sibbes, Christ Is Best
Life is complicated. It's a form of joy to have no other choice.
— M.O. Walsh
Every new dayOur children's joy is as fresh as roses,Even the birds chatter at dawn.
— Scott Hastie
Although we may encounter dark seasons, when we're filled with joy we'll have confident expectations that the sun will soon return and dark clouds will pass.
— Dana Arcuri, Harvest of Hope: Living Victoriously Through Adversity: A 50-Day Devotional
You should find the same joy in one condition as in the other and thereby be free of care, that is all. But now, when the things that happened along take their leave, you cease to be joyful. From this point of view, though you have joy, it will always be fated for destruction.
— Zhuangzi
Let's follow our curiosity & our joy.
— Jay Woodman
For every moment of suffering,Others will arriveThat will instead pierce you with joy.
— Scott Hastie
The freedom to talk with God and of God is being opened by God's joy. It cannot be forced. For true awareness cannot be coercive
—  it does not come about by either authoritarian pressure or the force of logic. It presupposes liberty. Being aware of God is an art and--if the term may be permitted--a noble game.
It should be the art of Christians to present death as a passage to a better life, to labour to bring our souls into such a condition, as to think death not to be a death to us, but the death of itself. Death dies when I die, and I begin to live when I die. It is a sweet passage to life. We never live till we die.
— Richard Sibbes, Christ Is Best
Live in joy, in love,even among those who hate.Live in joy, in health,even among the afflicted.Live in joy, in peace,even among the troubled.Look within, be still.Free from fear and attachment,know the sweet joy of the way.
— Gautama Buddha
I Love You! Three words that mean nothing if not followed through with actions. It seems to be more relevant in the terms of showing verses saying. Anyone can say it, because there are different kinds of love. But, few are willing to actually show it. Saying is one thing. Living proof is another.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that you do not create idols to worship.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
The satisfaction? The joy? That comes from solving problems and making things.
— Hank Green
Knowledge of Self is very important, you can't be living in a world pretending to be someone you're not. No one will ever believe in you, when you don't have the courage to believe in yourself. You can not live to impress others solely not giving thought to express your true being. No one wants to interact with a pretender, a fake, a wannabe.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
Happiness gives you the freedom to enhance your ability to achieve success. Your choices in life are a direct reflection of your level of happiness. It's the sunshine for your soul that you need in order to grow
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
It's amazing how people can find all the mistakes in the world concerning another person, but look into the mirror every day without making changes within. Stop looking down your nose at others, What does that achieve? We all can make room for improvements. Most of the time it starts with a little attitude adjustment.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
At first sight, joy seems to be connected with being different. When you receive a compliment or win an award, you experience the joy of not being the same as others. You are faster, smarter, more beautiful, and it is that difference that brings you joy. But such joy is very temporary. True joy is hidden where we are the same as other people: fragile and mortal. It is the joy of belonging to the human race. It is the joy of being with others as a friend, a companion, a fellow traveler. This is the joy of Jesus, who is Emmanuel: God-with-us.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen, Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith
Dig Deep! When the task at hand seems to be very difficult. Dig Deep! Whenever you feel you're drifting away from your intended course. Dig Deep! When others doubt you and say it can't be done. Dig Deep! Whenever you feel like giving up. Dig Deep! When life throws you a curve ball. If you quit, you'll never hit that homerun
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
In a world where things are moving so fast, don't get lost in the midst of it all. Figure out what's more important to you and proceed with confidence. I know it gets a bit hectic at times and almost seems impossible. But, you can get there, even if you must pause along the way. Just don't come to a complete stop.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
Quiet moments bring you closer to God. It's your silent time within your own private sanctuary. People have so many things to talk about, worry about, think about, without giving themselves peace within. Quiet moments give you access to areas of your brain which allows you to function proficiently.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
I give myself permissionto enjoy the present moment.
— Human Angels, 365 Mantras for today
Everything that looks good may not be good for you. In life, we all take chances. You must carefully examine the pros and cons. People often times have certain hidden agendas. And, you might not realize until you're in too deep.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
There is no way to your personal joy if you hand over the keys to someone who is not ready to open the door for you. You have the right to choose your friends
—  do it carefully!
There is joy at the end of every struggle we face. But you can never cross over and get there with the boats of complains. Complainer is only an explainer of pain! Take action!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
A thankful heartis the key to overflowing joy.
— Human Angels, 365 Wisdom Pills
Joy is what people take,happiness is what you make,pain is something you feel and the more you feed it the more it works.
— Royal Cromwell
Life is always good, if those who are living a round you are happy with what's going on.
— Auliq Ice
Let's be happy the way life takes shape, it is all decided and destined to be that way and we can't change anything unless we first change ourselves.
— Auliq Ice
Your choices are the reason you are who you are today. When you look back, maybe thinking you shouldn't have done a particular thing, don't stay there. Live for this very moment. After all, this moment is what really matters, your past has come and gone. Move on,
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
when exactly do the abuses that have been tolerated for so long become intolerable? When does the fear evaporate and the rage generate action that produces joy?
— Rebecca Solnit, The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
Traditionally, there have been two major strains of motivation (or perceived motivations) in anarchist politics: Duty and Joy. Like any duality, it is easy to fall into the trap of simplistic black and white labels, ignoring the more realistic continuum of grays. Instead, think of these two motivations as the end points on a continuum, illuminating everything in between.
— Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs
Sometimes when dogs greeted a returning soldier, they'd go over the edge. They would have to take a few moments to run crazily in circles around the human, or around a room or a yard. I'd have to take a break from watching, so my brain had a chance to absorb what I was seeing: that there is such a thing as joy being bigger than the container that holds it.
— Ellen Cooney, The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances
A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
I could see it on the faces of people as they passed. I would smile to share my joy, but it was AS IF I upset them with my happiness. In Confusion they would reply with a negative remark. Hoping it would spark a new chain of negative thoughts in me bringing me down to their level misery.
— Bethany Brookbank, Write like no one is reading
Be grateful when you have friends who care for you, it's a blessing to see nice happy people around us.
— Auliq Ice
It's laughter that lubricates our irritations, that releases our tensions, that feeds our joy… it’s the laughter that helps keep things warm and joyful even in the midst of pain.
— Emilie Barnes
The path of love is not a tedious path. It's a path of joy. It's a path of singing and dancing.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Make peace with others. The only thing you can change about the past is the damage you may have done to relationships. You may need to make amends with some people and say sorry. Sometimes it feels like we have unfinished business if we leave something in a state of tension. Break the ice, admit you were wrong, and then you and the other person can let go of any bitterness and move on. Sometimes God won't let us rest with ourselves and be at peace unless we take care of certain things. The Bible says in Matthew 5, "Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering." Another good verse that is related to this is in Mark 11, "Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your transgressions. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your transgressions." So we need to forgive others and we need to ask for their forgiveness if we have done them wrong. When Jesus was asked how many times we have to forgive others He said 70 times 7, as in, countless times. Joyce Meyer says, "Do yourself a favor and forgive," because you will never truly have peace until you forgive everyone and anyone who has done you wrong. Amen.
— Lisa Bedrick, The Life of a Christian
Don't waste your time trying to win people over that can never be won over.
— Joel Osteen
One who hates to be driven through suffering has no right to expect the pleasure, for pleasure may give joy but the pain gives meaning; Meaningless Joy is like anchor-less Ship sailing in a shoreless sea
— Ajay Chandan
The more you want to dig a hole and burry yourself in it, the more you need to run and be ALIVE and do things. The more you want to do nothing, the more you need to do something. The more you want to be selfish, just think about yourself and your own pain, the more you need to look outward and try to cheer other people up. Then you will find happiness for yourself, when you give yourself away in any way you can.
— Lisa Bedrick, Poems about Nature, Grief and Childhood
Always re-invent yourself. Always try new things; new food, new hobbies, meet new people. That will keep your life from becoming stagnant and boring. And you will have a lot more fun!
— Lisa Bedrick, Life Stories
Money almost always ends up disappointing.  Buying things to give lasing satisfaction is an illusion. Money can't buy happiness. The people with the most money are often times the MOST miserable people.
— Lisa Bedrick, On Christian Hot Topics
Joy, I think, is the main fruit of the Spirit missing among Christians, and peace and self-control are the main fruits or qualities that seem to be missing among those who are not Christian.
— Lisa Bedrick, How to Walk Worthy of Your Calling
She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry.
— Wendell Berry
Though there are no stars, no light but the souls in love will always shine so bright even in darkness.
— Auliq Ice
You can have all the money in the world, one of the biggest mansions ever built, be one of the most famous people in the world, and still be as unhappy as Mariah Carey was. Money and fame don't make people happy. Only God does. Amen.
— Lisa Bedrick, Life Stories
With mercy and sympathy, no one will hate to love one another.
— Auliq Ice
Exciting happiness is joy, celebration, travelling, being in bed with a woman you desire.
— François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness
Joy comes from knowing that God is at work in your life in spite of your circumstances.
— Jim George
To be afraid of sorrow is to be afraid of joy also.
— Rebecca West
I am an immortal Experiencer. Does that changed my life,no but it changed the way I Experience life.
— Tarn dipp
Joy is a decision. Circumstances and situations will scream distractions.Come what may, decide to be joyful in God and by the Holy Spirityou will be joyful.
— Kunle Olusegun-Emmanuel, Changing Your Identity
Random tips that will help you to have peace. Don't do much. Don't overwork yourself. Take a Sabbath; one day a week to do nothing overly hard. Give yourself breaks. Get a massage. Go to the beach. Get outside and walk in the woods. If you don't live by woods, drive to some. :) Get a pet that will make you laugh. Always remember to have fun and find joy in life.
— Lisa Bedrick, On Christian Hot Topics
No matter what you do, 10% of the population will not like you.
— Joyce Meyer
I know the moment you died,Jesus' face was smiling on you,Welcoming you into His glorious city of gold. I know you are enjoying the incredible light and peace of His presence right now
— Lisa Bedrick, Poems about Nature, Grief and Childhood
You can’t put a price on fun
—  it’s always priceless
When you are aligned with the truth of who you truly are, then you experience bliss.
— Vivian Amis, I AM - The Key to Manifesting
Life is for memories, full of fun, with friends, families and joyful sun.
— Debasish Mridha
Most of us don't fear that we are not enough; what most of us really fear is our own greatness. Most of us have a fear of success. Why? Because we don't think that we deserve to be successful in anything. This is why people recklessly spend their money or don't work as hard as they could or do things that they know are wrong. They are hindering their own success on purpose, because they don't think they deserve it. They cut their own legs out from underneath them on purpose. They are self-sabotaging.
— Lisa Bedrick, How to Walk Worthy of Your Calling
I have nothing to do today except to feel the joy of life and be happy.
— Debasish Mridha
Let us see each other not through the eyes but through the heart and feel the joy of love.
— Debasish Mridha
Express gratitude for love, joy, and beauty of life, to expand your happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is short. Jingle your bells.
— Eleanor Brownn
The beauty of your smile fills me with the joy of life.
— Debasish Mridha
When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. Matthew 2:10
— Matthew 2 10
Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.
— Vivian Amis, I Am: The Key to Manifesting
We are young, life is vivacious, life is fun, let's enjoy it, at the beach with loving sun.
— Debasish Mridha
We all shuffle our own deck in life ... The deck is our brain, the cards are our thoughts, the results we get will determine if we are giving ourselves a fair deal. Do you have an authentic dealer?
— Michael Levy, The Joys of Live Alchemy
I pray this new year will be greater, smooth and brings best aroma to our smelling, normal burning for toothpicks, blue colours for great celebration, unlimited joy from nw, then and beyound in JESUS name ★FEYIKOGBON★
— oladosu feyikogbon
Rejoice in the works of your hands, be happy and thankful that you are valuable, that what you say and do insn't taken for a ride, that you have rejected the notion of self-doubt and fear, that God isn't blind towards propagating your positive influence, and finally that you'll leave a meritorious legacy.
— Michael Bassey Johnson