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The first question they ask is: "Why was he eternally surprised?"And they were told: "Wen considered the nature of time and understood the universe is, instant by instant, re-created anew. Therefore, he understood, there is, in truth, no Past, only a memory of the Past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.
— Terry Pratchett
Whether we are at Cafe Gratitude or Carl’s Jr, whether we are in a cathedral or in a nightclub, whether we are inside of a mosque or on the metro, every single moment is a sacred moment. A moment far too important for us to miss. When we miss the people and the experiences and the feelings of our lives, we miss God. We don’t get to know the joy of seeing God show up in the world. More profoundly, we don’t get to participate in the wonder of God showing up in the world.
— Stephen Lovegrove
While I may not always feel joy, God asks me to give thanks in all things because He knows that the feeling of joy begins in the action of thanksgiving.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Grace
My life consists of two things,Pain and hardship that no one but me can describe,Love and joy that can only be mesured in who I am
— Sam Politinsky
He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers for the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones until it now said something it had never said to him before, which was "yes".
— Douglas Adams
may he bring you life, and in that life, may you find joy.
— Kary Rader, A Taylor-Made Life
New Year, new month, new day, new moment, all places we have never been before. Enjoy each experience with relish & spice... tasty times ahead.
— Michael Levy
The author of Hebrews says what kept him (Jesus) going was "the joy set before him" (Hebrews 12:2). The joy of accomplishing what had been lovingly planned from the beginning...the joy of pleasing his Father. And you. Your face was before him. He was willing to bear the terrible irony of obscurity to accomplish the plan, to please his Father, and to win you.
— Marcia Lebhar
There was a worm addicted to grape leaves, she continued, and suddenly it woke up. Call it a miracle, whatever, something woke it up and it wasn’t a worm anymore. It was the whole vineyard, and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks, an ever-expanding joy that didn’t need to devour anything.
— Kathryn Davis, Duplex
If I live for you, I can fulfill your happiness, but if you allow me to then you don't care about mine.
— James L. Craig
As Christians, we call ourselves people of faith, but how much practical faith do we really have?
— Lisa Bedrick
The joy you feel when you become a small life particle sun and share its brightness and warmth with those around you is indescribably great.
— Ilchi Lee, LifeParticle Meditation: A Practical Guide to Healing and Transformation
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
— Karl Barth
We are the source of infinite love, infinite joy, and infinite happiness, but we spend our whole life looking for love, joy and happiness. How foolish is this?
— Debasish Mridha
Living beautifully and justly are the source of all joy and happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
I am the source of loveI am the source of joyI am the heaven and earthI am the happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
Take a deep breath and feel the joy of life. Open your eyes and see the beauty of a dancing leaf.
— Debasish Mridha
Open your heart! Dance with joy and love.
— Debasish Mridha
Service is joy, service is happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
With your, love touch someone's heart, feel their soul, enjoy their bliss, share your joy, and then become their friend.
— Debasish Mridha
People are prettiest when they smile with joy.
— Debasish Mridha
Give a smile always, not once a while. Life's great when you wake up and ignore the scaring nightmares you had. Forget the bitter bile; life's sweet beyond River Nile. File your teeth out and smile!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Allow your joy to exceed anyone else’s negativity.
— Robbie Vorhaus, One Less. One More.
We get greatest joy not from receiving but from giving.
— Debasish Mridha
There are still blue skies and rainbows and days bathed in sunlight. There are colorful shade trees filled with sweet bird songs. And there are wishing stars in the heavens as well as angels in God's service. So lift up your eyes. Refuse to be unhappy.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
you deserve foryour heart to be heard-because love lights afire in us all.it can make us warm withwonder or melt from itsintense power.nevertheless it is magic-and that alone is worthyof being unleashed.
— Alexandra Elle
Until further notice, celebrate everything.
— Anonymous
At the very crisis, when Satan seemed about to triumph, the Son of God came with the embassage of divine grace.
— Ellen G. White
464Joy is found in the breath of acceptance knowing that all is well in our world, if we surrender with grace.
— Jennifer Lynch
People lack morals, good moral character is important in every aspect of your life. Honesty and Integrity opens the door. Your character allows others to see you for who you truly are. Make your first impression a lasting impression. Ironically it may be your last impression
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
The more he loved and was loved, the better his life got. At once it seemed to Jack like a magical solution to everything. If only everyone loved everyone else! Then there would be no trouble in the world. It seemed so easy. If we all just reached our hands out to each other, what peaks of human joy could we not achieve!
— Don Carpenter
There seems to be something in our human nature that draws us away from a life-giving relationship with Jesus because it feels more comfortable to focus on what to do and not do. That tendency robs us of real joy and peace.
— Chris Hodges, Fresh Air: Trading Stale Spiritual Obligation for a Life-Altering, Energizing, Experience-It-Everyday Relationship with God
Difficulty provides a platform for exposing Jesus to the world through your joy in the Lord.
— Jim George
Joy in your Job is possible to the extent you're willing to choose it.
— Todd Stocker, Becoming The Fulfilled Leader
Adults envy the open-hearted and open-minded explorations of children; seeing their joy and curiosity, we pine for our own capacity for wide-eyed wonder.
— Gabor Maté
Love is the giving from the heartWithout expecting any return.Love is the sharing the beauty of lifeWithout expecting any charm or joyLove is the caring with kindnessWithout knowing caring is the joy.
— Debasish Mridha
The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.
— Sadhguru
A little caring, a little love, and a little kindness can give you joy and bring enduring happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
A loving heart is the source of all happiness, all joy and all bliss.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness is there when you express kindness, compassion, and unconditional love and fill yourself with bliss and joy.
— Debasish Mridha
Be the gardener of love and joy, Happiness will bloom in your garden.
— Debasish Mridha
Whenever you smile, whenever you care, whenever you love, whenever you share, your spirit will dance with joy because happiness is there.
— Debasish Mridha
We have to be open to love to feel happiness and joy.
— Debasish Mridha
Service is joy, Service is the kindnessService is love, Service is the happiness
— Debasish Mridha
Service to the humanity is the source of joy and happiness. It is the rent you pay for living on this beautiful planet.
— Debasish Mridha
Nothing can bring joy in your life except yourself.
— Debasish Mridha
Joy and happiness derives not from receiving but from giving.
— Debasish Mridha
I am responsible for my life, my happiness, and my joy. I am responsible for my faults, which will destroy.
— Debasish Mridha
When we learn to enjoy success as well as failure, we will be eternally happy and joyful for sure.
— Debasish Mridha
The heart dances with joy when you're sharing.
— Debasish Mridha
Do what you like and like what you doIt will bring success, joy and happiness to you.
— Debasish Mridha
Hope keeps us alive. Love gives us joy. Perception of inner joy open the door toward the happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
Sadness is pervasive, so focus on joy, focus on happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
When happiness depends on a situation or creation, it is not happiness; it is the joy of action.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is not about success; life is about joy, peace, and happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
Life isn't about achieving successBut about creating joy and happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
If it be a point of humanity for man to bring health and comfort to man, and especially to mitigate and assuage the grief of others, and by taking from them the sorrow and heaviness of life to restore them to joy, that is to say, to pleasure, why may it not then be said that nature does provoke every man to do the same to himself?
— Thomas More
God is joy. Joy contains light that illuminates your entire being and those that come in contact with you.
— Vivian Amis, The Essentials of Life
The mother is the child's first relationship, his whole world, his existence. If there is love in the relationship between the child and the mother, the child learns to trust himself, to trust others and to trust life. If there is no love in the relationship between the mother and the child, the child learns to distrust himself, to distrust others and to distrust life.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
The true path to success is to find your joy and share it with others.
— Vivian Amis, The Essentials of Life
Size doesn't define your beauty and intelligence. Appearance doesn't measure the goodness of your heart and the hidden joy of your soul.
— Angelica Hopes, Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul
People with looks are lovely. People with brains are witty. People with cash are wealthy. But people with God are truly happy.
— Joe Mari Fadrigalan
A child comes from God, a child is a gift from God, but a child is not our possession. Give the child unconditional love and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul. The child has its own way.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
Humility makes us more friendly Happiness makes us more lively.Love makes us more caringDream makes us more daring.Trust makes us more forgivingKindness makes us more loving.Hope gives us the joy of dreamingPeace gives us the joy of living.
— Debasish Mridha
The secret of joy is to give love without seeking it.
— Debasish Mridha
Let me be kind, let me be compassionate, let me be joyful, and let me sing a song of love.
— Debasish Mridha
You are a gift, so open yourself everyday to see the beauty with love, wonder and feel the joy.
— Debasish Mridha
If you like to fill your life with joyJust be lovingJust be caring And just be kind.
— Debasish Mridha
No matter wherever you are,share your joy to make this world joyful and better.
— Debasish Mridha
Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly.
— Debasish Mridha
Live, not just for livingLive, not just for gettingLive for the beauty of lovingLive for the joy of giving.
— Debasish Mridha
A writer draws a road map where readers walks with their love, joy, anger, tears, and dismay. Every story, every poem, has different meanings for every reader.
— Debasish Mridha
Writing comes from the fear of failure not from the joy of winning.
— Debasish Mridha
Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story.
— Debasish Mridha
I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life.
— Debasish Mridha
To feel pure joy, sell your pride and be loving and kind.
— Debasish Mridha
Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy.
— Debasish Mridha
A warrior doesn’t worry. He or she evaluates the situation, investigates the source, calculates the risks and benefits, formulates a plan then puts it into action.
— Shannon L. Alder
People sometimes get so lost in their own beliefs that they fail to gain truth and understanding. You can't get the whole picture just by relying on your own perception. Never be afraid of the truth.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
As you walk with Jesus, resting your head on His heart, you will learn to know His Word, His will, and His ways. You will want to obey Him, not out of forced compliance, but out of heartfelt connection. Your joy will abound as you remain in His love.
— Sue Detweiler, 9 Traits of a Life-Giving Mom: Replacing My Worst with God's Best
So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!
— Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive
There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won’t fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet.
— John Piper, When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy and the make the most of where you are.
— Germany Kent
We have been shown how to fight hate without becoming hate ourselves. We have been given a Companion and a Friend and not just a good idea. We have been given joy in the midst of failure, and not just a way of winning or being right.
— Richard Rohr
If we were perfect—if there were no remaining corruption in our hearts—there would be no fight. There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won’t fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet.
— John Piper, When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy
It was a perfect moment and she was shocked to feel a tear roll slowly down her cheek. The warm droplet reached his finger where it lay against her skin, and even though it was far too dark to see anything clearly, she sensed that he was bringing it up to his mouth.
— Emily Arden, Lover by Moonlight: Deception: Book One
Starting the day—Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own sunrise. To awaken like a prayer—both solemn and joyful at still being alive . . .
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
death is a joyous journey for the purposeful life and a melancholy for the mediocre life
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
But Jesus, our Advocate, presents an effectual plea in behalf of all who by repentance and faith have committed the keeping of their souls to Him.He pleads their cause, and by the mighty arguments of Calvary vanquishes their accuser.
— Ellen G. White
Perhaps it was the darkness and secrecy that lent an extra layer of excitement to their meeting? Certainly, all of her other senses felt heightened to an almost unbearable extent. She couldn’t see, but she could hear the distant strains of dance music as the steady beat thrummed through her body; and she could feel so much with just one touch.
— Emily Arden, Lover by Moonlight: Deception: Book One
Men ask for a rainbow in the cloud; but I would ask more from Thee. I would be, in my cloud, myself a rainbow -- a minister to others' joy. My patience will be perfect when it can work in the vineyard
— George Matheson
It wasn’t a normal joy, it was a bitter joy, but somehow the bitterness made the joy even more wonderful.
— Therese May, By Moonlight
I remembered reading somewhere that if you smile at something, it automatically makes you happier.
— Elizabeth Eulberg, Better off Friends
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.
— R. Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path
God is not ignoring your prayers, He is working behind the scene perfecting all that concerns you, praise Him.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Risk It, Be Different
Share your life with others. You will have a joyful life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Blessed is the nightbird that sings for joy and not to be heard.
— Marty Rubin
And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn reverence for those songs of defiant gaiety.
— Ayn Rand, We the Living
There was a spring in his carefully measured step. He opened the door and let the sunlight in, as if opening himself up, letting pent-up energy out and, letting the world enter inside- letting the light illuminate him. It was strange to see him like that, a tad amusing perhaps. He had thought it over. He had decided to welcome me with happiness and joy and to present his best self to me, whenever I decide to come.
— Ashay Abbhi, Chronicles of Urban Nomads
It is great joy to love and be loved.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There is no destination; when you manifest the love, health, money you so desire and deserve, you will have the desire to manifest more. Your soul wants all these experiences and declaring your desires is just a way of directing you towards a pathway that will give you all the experiences you want on a deeper level. Fly up in your balloon, take your loved ones with you and while you are up there, make rainbows appear, just like I did.
— Malti Bhojwani, Don't Think Of a Blue Ball
You have the power to shape your life the way you want it to be. Every though, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some may say you're just a dreamer. But everything imagined began with a dream.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
It is a great joy to love and be loved.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A joyful life,reaching out to people from all walks of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We alays blame the outer world for our failures, unhappiness and frustration. It is time to realise that it is health, harmony and wealth of our inner world that determine the degree of our success, joy, peace and bliss.
— Vishwas Chavan
A godly man in the midst of the waves and storms that he meets with can see the glory of heaven before him and so contents himself. One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world. We know that one drop of sourness, or one drop of gall will make bitter a great deal of it; but if you put a spoonful of gall into a cup of sugar, it will embitter that. Now it is otherwise in heaven: one drop of sweetness will sweeten a great deal of sour affliction, but a great deal of sourness and gall will not embitter a soul who sees the glory of heaven that is to come.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens—even when things go wrong.
— Jim George, A Dad After God's Own Heart: Becoming the Father Your Kids Need
Do not allow what you long for...., prevent you from enjoying the moment. Be joyful in the present, at the appointed time your wish will be granted.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is tears of joy, this is the baptism of fingers. (L'amour, c'est larme de joie, - C'est le baptême des doigts)
— Charles de Leusse
True saints know that the place where all the joy comes from is far deeper than that of feelings
—  joy comes from the place of the very presence of God. Joy is God and God is joy and joy doesn't negate all other emotions - joy transcends all other emotions.
Worries are wasted energies.You can have a joyful life when you let go of your worries.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Joy is a flame that glimmers only in the palm of the open and humble hand. In an open and humble palm, released and surrendered to receive, light dances, flickers happy. The moment the hand is clenched tight, fingers all pointing towards self and rights and demands, joy is snuffed out. Anger is the lid that suffocates joy until she lies limp and lifeless.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
The joy of small that makes life large.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Become disinterested in your pain and suffering. Only then can you make space for your longstanding joy.
— David  Ault
Wonderful life, life live to inspired other people.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It was not till I experimented with seeds plucked straight from a growing plant that I had my first success...the first thrill of creation...the first taste of blood. This, surely, must be akin to the pride of paternity...indeed, many soured bachelors would wager that it must be almost as wonderful to see the first tiny crinkled leaves of one's first plant as to see the tiny crinkled face of one's first child.
— Beverley Nichols, Down the Garden Path
Life moves for people who move their bodies!
— Toni Sorenson
Inner joy enables you to choose to look beyond your pain and make your praise a sacrifice to God.
— Jim George
Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand.
— Shannon L. Alder
what it is is the memory of a dance a song you heard long ago to hear it is to be young again and for once for once you are happy
— Julio Alexi Genao
Unconditional Love is the outer expression of Inner Peace.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
I've said this before, but people love you for so many reasons. Some love you only for what you do for them. Some love you for how much money you spend. Some love you for your possessions. By now, we should know that isn't love, but merely infatuation. Don't be fooled into thinking a person like that is going to hang around once those things are gone.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
All I’m saying is that I want you to be happy. I don’t care how it happens, or what it takes to facilitate it. I don’t care if it happens with me or without me. I don’t care if you use me to get there, or if I’m entirely irrelevant to your process. None of me is attached to how your happiness happens; I care only that it does.
— Agnostic Zetetic
One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns and derives from love.
— Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavement suddenly taught me that so many things that I thought were important, externals, etc., all of that is irrelevant. You lose a parent, you suddenly realize what a slender thing life is, how easily you can lose those you love. Then out of that comes a new simplicity and that is why sometimes all the pain and the tears lift you to a much higher and deeper joy when you say to the bad times, "I will not let you go until you bless me.
— Jonathan Sacks
Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Many things are spoken out loud, but be careful of those words that you whisper to yourself. You have the ability to uplift yourself or condemn yourself. If your thoughts are depressingly running across your mind. You need to make adjustments and change your way of thinking.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance, you never feel so bad that you can't describe how bad you feel, but joy on the other hand is far too divine for human language.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Crying makes problems seem longer, and laughing makes problems seem shorter. Therefore in life if you cannot find a way out of your problems just take a short cut through them: that shortcut is laughter.
— Moffat Machingura, Life Capsules
The birth of a child is a joy to the parent and the world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).
— Wendy Beckett, Sister Wendy's Meditations on Joy
When I was 15 years old, I came in contact with my first ashram, my first spiritual commune, in the form of Ljusbacken ("The Hill of Light") in Delsbo in beautiful Halsingland in the north of Sweden. Ljusbacken consisted of an international gathering of yogis, meditators, therapists, healers and seekers of truth. It was on Ljusbacken that I for the first time came in contact with my path in life: meditation.It was also on Ljusbacken that I meet people for the first time in my 15 year old life, where I on a deep wordless level felt that I meet people, who were on the same path as me. It was the first time that I meet people, who could put words on and confirm my own inner thirst after something that I could only occasionally sense vaguely, like some sort of inner guiding presence, or like a beacon in the distant far out on the open and misty ocean. For the first time in my life, I meet brothers, sisters and friends on the inner path. It was also on Ljusbacken that I meet the mystery called love for the first time in my 15 year old life. With my 15 year old eyes, I watched with wide eyed fascination and fear filled excitement the incomprehensible mystery, which is called woman.My own thirst after truth, together with my inner guiding light, resulted in an early spiritual awakening when I was 15 years old. It led me back to the inner path, which I have already followed for many lives. It led me back to a life lived with vision, with dedication and meaning, and not only a life governed by the endless desires of the ego, a mere vegetating without substance between life and death. It led me to explore the inner journey again, to discover the inner being, the meditative quality within, and to come in intimate contact with the endless and boundless ocean of consciousness, like the drop surrenders to the sea. At the source, the drop and ocean are one.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.
— Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
If you’re giving to get, all you’ll receive is disappointment. But if you’re giving to give, all you’ll receive is joy.
— Toni Sorenson
The wind and sky know that there is no joy in unlimited freedom
— Munia Khan
Healing is the way of the heart. This book is an invitation to open our heart. Healing is a love affair with life.Healing is pure love. Love is what creates healing. Spiritual healing is to be one with ourselves. And to be one with ourselves is to be in joy.Healing is to develop our inner being. Healing is to discover that which is already perfect within ourselves. It is to rediscover our inner life source. Spiritual healing is to be one with life. We are never really alone, it is our idea of a separate "I" that creates the feeling of being separate from life, from the Whole.In reality there is only one heart, a pulsating Existential heart. Our own heart pulsates in unity with the Existential heartbeats. We are all notes in the Existential music, and without our unique note the music would not be complete. We are all needed in the Whole; we all have our unique fragrance, quality and gifts to contribute to the Whole.More than 30 years ago, I had an individual consultation with a spiritual teacher. I did not have time to sit down before I got the question: "You are interested in healing, are you not?" It was the first time that I encountered the topic that would become my way and deep source of joy in life. This spiritual teacher finished the consultation saying: "You will be a fine healer."The art of healing is the psychology of being, the science of inner transformation. The psychology of being begins where Western psychology ends. It goes beyond Skinner, Freud, Jung, Rogers, Maslow and humanistic psychology. The psychology of being is the psychology of consciousness, a psychology for inner transformation. It is not basically a question of psychology, it is a question of being. The psychology of being begins where we are, and take us to everything that we can be.The underlying theme the psychology of being is meditation - but not meditation as a static technique - but as the capacity to BE with ourselves and others in a quality of watchful awareness, acceptance and realization.The art of being is a search beyond the personality. It a search beyond the thoughts, the emotions and the learned attitudes of the personality, to the inner being, to the depth within, which is hidden in ourselves.The inner being is a deep acceptance of ourselves as we are; the inner being is to be available to life. The inner being is to be in unity with life. This book is an invitation to meet the inner being, our inner source of love, joy, acceptance, humor, intuition, understanding, wisdom, truth, silence and creativity.
— Swami Dhyan Giten, Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being
In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so - that it is fundamentally alien to our being, this even though we all suffer, and frequently. Yet we reject suffering as a basic human truth, while greeting joy as integral to our very substance.
— Wendy Beckett, Sister Wendy's Meditations on Joy
Working with people is basically not a question of formal education; working with people is a question of energy and awareness. Everyone can basically work with people. It is a question of developing a presence and a quality to work from. It is also about discovering our own unique way to be and work with people from our authentic inner being.The most important healing- and therapeutic ability is the capacity to be present. To be present means to develop a presence and a quality to work from. It means to be present with an open and relaxed heart, and to be grounded in our inner being, in the meditative quality within.Presence means to work from a meditative quality, from an inner "yes"-quality, from a state of non-doing. It is to be present for another person as a supporting light, as a supporting presence.Meditation is the way to deepen our capacity to be present, and explore how to bring the meditative presence into the healing- and therapeutic process. It is about developing a meditative presence and quality, to develop the inner "yes"-quality, the silence and emptiness within ourselves, the inner source of healing and wholeness, the capacity to surrender to life.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
There is never a reason good enough to be out of alignment with peace.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic.
— Carmela Dutra
This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.
— Wendy Beckett, Sister Wendy's Meditations on Joy
For a few minutes the anxiety that tormented him had vanished, leaving his mind as serene as the beauty he looked at. Very lovely, he thought, are the sudden moments of relief that come in the midst of strain, those moments of forgetfulness when we are "teased out of thought" by a bird or a flower or the sight of old roofs in the sun; lovely though so transient, the reversal of those brief moments of misery that visit us even in the midst of joy.
— Elizabeth Goudge, A City of Bells
Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly himself.
— Geoffrey Wood
In Joy, to lose one’s life is to gain it, and Joy never loses an opportunity to be lost in the other.
— Geoffrey Wood
I see what the joy is; it is the joy of always loving, it is the joy of losing my own life in love to others.
— Andrew Murray, The Master's Indwelling
True sense of humour and true, deep happiness never depend on the after effects of destructive vices
— Angelica Hopes
The sun dances in her and she has an immense joy of life
— James Clavell, Shogun    Part 1 Of 3
I feel like spring after winter, and sun on the leaves; and like trumpets and harps and all the songs I have ever heard!
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
The key problem I encounter working with wounded, depressed, and unhappy people is a lack of connection…starting from a disconnection from themselves and then with others. This is why love often becomes so distorted and destructive. When people experience a disconnection from themselves, they feel it but do not realize the problem.
— David W. Earle
You did not invent these family habits. Your family is like mine, for thousands and thousands of years our families have embraced a dysfunctional lifestyle, passing these habits as gospel on to subsequent generations. This was not done out of malice, spite, or hate, but what they knew best. As ineffective as these habits are, you never stopped to consider another way of loving.
— David W. Earle
A pessimist is someone who has forgotten the joy of beginning.
— Marty Rubin
Be thankful and joyful.Be content with life.Make the most of every situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No one escapes some degree of chaos for it is so ever prevalent; it is the human experience. This realization does not mean we can’t improve. It does mean we can accept our state of chaos, lighten up on ourselves, have fun, and work on improving…we are a work in progress. Enjoy the journey.
— David W. Earle
Joy – in the fall, winter, and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.
— Donna Lynn Hope
When you stop doing what insults your Soul, your Journey accelerates and your Life beings to fill with joy.
— Sue Fitzmaurice
Even when we're standing at the scariest precipice ever, our soul still cries out for joy.
— Sue Fitzmaurice
But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end-and yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it's possible to play it with a kind of joy?To try to make some meaning out of all this seems unbelievably quaint. Maybe I only see a pattern because I've been staring too long. But then again, to paraphrase Boris, maybe I see a pattern because it's there.
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Don’t be lazy. Hard work brings happiness. There is no other time to avoid being a lazy. Take that decision now. Kick laziness out.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
They said that you would never make it, but you did. They said that you would quit, but you persevered and fought through every obstacle that came your way. They said that you didn’t have what it takes, but you proved them ALL wrong. Not only do you have success, but you have peace and joy within. You never compromised your character and you tackled everything with dignity. You didn’t allow any challenges to discourage you, because you knew all along that there was a winner in you. You doubted yourself at times, but you didn’t allow anything or anybody to keep you down. You made it! Be proud of your accomplishments! Enjoy all of the benefits from your hard work and dedication!
— Stephanie Lahart
Many of the habits of dysfunctional families use are not from the lack of love but are the result of fear. Knowing the love-limiting habits and behaviors of dysfunctional families is a wonderful beginning to lower the fear, allowing us to be real, allowing us all to learn how to love better.
— David W. Earle
At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile
— Loren Eiseley
She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.
— Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive
If neither crying nor laughing can change my circumstances, then I rather go through them laughing.
— Moffat Machingura, Life Capsules
There are always lone hearth-fires; so many! And those who sit beside them, with the empty chair, cannot restrain the tears that will come. One sits alone so much. There is some One unseen, just here within reach. But somehow we don't realize His presence. Realizing is blessed, but--rare. It belongs to the mood, to the feelings. It is dependent on weather conditions and bodily conditions. The rain, the heavy fog outside, the poor sleep, the twinging pain, these make one's mood so much, they seem to blur out the realizing.But there is something a little higher up than realizing. It is yet more blessed. It is independent of these outer conditions, it is something that abides. It is this: recognizing that Presence unseen, so wondrous and quieting, so soothing and calming and warming. Recognize His presence--the Master's own. He is here, close by; His presence is real. Recognizing will help realizing, too, but it never depends on it.Aye, more, immensely more, the Truth is a Presence, not a thing, a fact, a statement. Some One is present, a warm-hearted Friend, an all-powerful Lord. And this is the joyful truth for weeping hearts everywhere, whatever be the hand that has drawn the tears; by whatever stream it be that your weeping willow is planted.
— S.D. Gordon
My Personal Super Shortcut To Happiness- When you prefer to lighten up your self-awareness, allow yourself to focus on your strongest joy, passion, and excitement. It is something you can do at every moment of your life, whenever you become aware of not feeling well. Always choose, out of all available joys, passions and excitements, as small as they may be, whatever makes you feel good about yourself. Act on the joy you determine as the passion of the moment, and enjoy it as long as it is fun for you. When it stops being enjoyable or when there is something else, which you become aware of, as more pleasurable, do it. You do not need any reason to have in order to embrace what interests you. You do not need any reason either, to stop doing something in the middle, when it does not excite you anymore. Whatever you choose to follow as your joy, as small and insignificant as it may appear, have no expectations, how this little joy can take you to your big dreams. Enjoy it only because you like it, and not because you expect some specific outcome in the future.
— Raphael Zernoff
Joy is found in simple things.
— Todd Stocker, Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter
You must maintain a state of happiness, state of joy to let the positive thoughts emanate from your mind.. If you are in a state of joy, your thoughts emanate positive energy, and you can influence others without much efforts.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
Be a hard worker. Work and happiness are like mother and daughter. Work brings forth happiness. Hard work brings great happiness. Enjoy life.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Fear pushes us down; joy picks us up!" (EL)
— Evinda Lepins, A Cup of Grace for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power
We are the oneness in love, joy and happy. We share this moment in time to experience the fullest and expansion of all our existence to collapse and be redefine into the truth of who and what we are and always will be. ~jh
— Jennifer Hillman
Lord my heart is filled with ever increasing praise for the wonderful blessings and joy in my life.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
God does not bless religious efforts—He blesses heart-felt obedience.
— Jim George
Blessed are you when you commit your life to the Lord.Your life will overflow with great joy and abundant life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I fall down I get up I fall down And the while I keep dancing.
— Japanese poem
The person with a joyous heart is a treasure to be with, a wellspring of inspiration, and a fit companion. When we are joyous of heart, we hear a resonance in the songs of the birds, see resonance in the opening of a flower, and feel it in the pressure of a friend’s hand.
— Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom Vol. II: Guidance from the Book of Changes
Many people look at their past and bemoan their mistakes. Those errors in judgment, behavior, hurting others, and the wrong decisions may be what consumes them now. It does not have to be that way, for recovering from a traumatic situation is all a matter of how we think about what happened. It is not so much about what happened to us as what we make of the circumstance.
— David W. Earle
Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fearis an orphaned part of usseeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to returnto the lightand homeof ourselves.
— Jacob Nordby
This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it.
— Charlotte Eriksson
The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for.
— C.S. Lewis, Perelandra
People need to understand that not everyone is out to hurt you. There are still some great people in this world. Do not allow yourself to believe that everyone is up to no good. Just because you have encountered some rude people along the way, doesn't mean that everyone is that way. When it comes to matters of the heart, Know which bridges to cross and which ones to burn.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
There is no greater moment in life than that when we discover the unique design which has shaped our lives from the moment of birth, save one:The instant we recognize destiny, accept it and then begin to create the rest of our own lives within it using the power of free will.When this threshold has been crossed, nothing can stop our inevitable journey into the highest good for ourselves and all around us.This is healing.This is actualization.This is integration.This is joy.And it is the birthright of every incarnated soul on this planet.
— Jacob Nordby
She looks very virtuous and very melancholy.""Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.
— Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
When our sensitivity to feel pain decreases, so does our sensitivity to feel joy with it.
— Johnson Bandi
Being alive is having what I want, that is my joy, my happiness.
— Marty Rubin
It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God's law. They must cease to rely upon their own efforts for salvation, they must trust wholly in the merits of the promised Saviour, if they would be accepted of God.
— Ellen G. White, Patriarchs And Prophets
There is always someone who cares for us and loves us. We may not always be aware of that yet we are very much needed and truly loved by the Universe. Everything that exists is needed, because what is not needed is not created. This is the way the Universe understands existence. When we let go of those people around us who are no longer compatible with our preference, which is love, peace and joy, we open the door to many new friends who love us for who we choose to be, and not for who they want us to be.
— Raphael Zernoff
Among the greatest tragedies is a person who believes that they aren't meant to win--by winning I mean find their purpose, passion and joy in life.They believe that other people have better DNA or happiness genes or something, but that they themselves are missing a critical chromosome.This is a lie and it is begging to be un-believed.For the moment we know the truth about ourselves, we can take both responsibility for our own lives and inspired action to create exactly the life which is our birthright.In other words, you were meant to win. You were created for joy.
— Jacob Nordby
If you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely for pleasure. Otherwise, you'll lose the joy of it, and if you lose the joy, you won't sound good to those who know piano - or to yourself.
— Dean Koontz, The City
Don't dwell on sadness. Joy will take you where you want to go.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The intellect can only think about or analyze joy, but cannot feel it.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
...the state of perfection is an elusive goal; demanding something so obscure as almost unattainable and can become a compulsive, crazy making squirrel-on-a-wheel way of living.
— David W. Earle
I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own free will
—  it cannot be belabored.
Fear steals your joy and kills your dreams.
— -Shandel Slaten
Good dancers awaken the joy in our hearts, we have seen them ablaze on stage, videos, on our streets, in the theaters, in our homes, schools and they have successfully ignited the love of dancing in our soul. At least, this is the major reason why dancers are born and made.
— Paul Bamikole
People whose dancing have brought joy to our hearts are born once in a century. We had MJ.
— Paul Bamikole
We seek love in relationships, peace in security, and joy in material things...but these feelings are divine and not dependent on any outer circumstances.
— Vivian Amis, The Essentials of Life
Any tiniest feeling, which fills you with peace and joy can grow to the size of a mountain, when you act on it with no expectation, where and how it must take you. Enjoy the moment of harmony and know that you can trust your Self.
— Raphael Zernoff
The source calls to you. Find a quiet place and listen for the voice of creation. Look upon the horizon and see the future of your new life, where you are again a natural soul living in joy and peace.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The New Man is the most important things that is happening in the world today.The new man will have to find new forms of communication, working together and sharing, because the old man and the old society will not disappear immediately. The old man will also put up a fight.The new man is a new humanity. Up to now, man has lived a pathological life, a neurotic life, a destructive life. During modern times, during the last 3000 years, there have been 6000 wars. You can not call this humanity healthy.Once in a while a Buddha, a Jesus, a Socrates, appeared, but each person is born to be a Buddha.How can I become the new man? The new man means a new consciousness, a new being. Humanity can not be saved if the new man does not arrive. Before it was not a necessity, but now it is absolutely necessary because now the war technology can destroy the whole earth. if not the new man arrives, if not people become more aware, awake and conscious, then this earth will not survive.The New Man means to develop all the three dimensions of being, all the three doors to God: the head, the dimension of thinking, logic and reason, the heart, the dimension of joy, trust, intuition, relationships, beauty, creativity and a sense of unity in love and the being, the dimension of meditation, silence, emptiness and oneness with life.The first level of the head is the dimension of ideas, intellect, hypothesis, theories, logic, analysis, rationality and dualistic thinking.The first level is the level of the mind, which means a continuous oscillation like a pendulum between the mind's memories of the past and the ideas, dreams and expectations of the future.The second level of the heart is the dimension of joy, acceptance, trust, understanding, trust, friendship, relationships, intuition, empathy, creativity, compassion, humor, playfulness and a sense of unity in love. The third level of being is the dimension of presence, awareness, meditation, silence, emptiness and wholeness. The third level is our connection with our inner life source.The new man means awareness, consciousness, love and creativity.The new man means meditation, to be in contact with our own inner source of silence.And if more people become meditative, the earth becomes filled with the fragrance of the new man.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
Joy is a practice, not an involuntary state.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
For all beings within this universal kingdom, their magnetic north rests in genuine mirth.
— Gabriel Brunsdon, Azlander: Second Nature
Joy is not a denial of painful circumstances, but a certainty that He is at work while we are in them. EL
— Evinda Lepins
Love is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself. Love is overflowing joy. Love is when you have seen that you are not separate from Existence. Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being. Fear is the opposite of love. In love, one expands. In fear, one shrinks. In fear, one becomes closed. In love, one opens.In fear, one doubts. In love, one trusts. Do not be afraid, this Existence is not your enemy. This existence loves you, this existence is ready to support you in any way. Trust and you will feel a new overflowing energy. That energy is love. That energy wants to bless the whole existence. Because of this energy, one feels blessed. Love is a deep desire to bless the whole Existence.
— Swami Dhyan Giten