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There are so many glowing reasons to feel the joy of life and to be happy.
— Debasish Mridha
Surprise yourself everyday with the power of your love. Love endlessly and care profoundly to feel the joy of life deeply.
— Debasish Mridha
The inner being is not only the meditative quality within, the inner silence and emptiness, it is the door to the whole.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
Of all the variables in your life, your relationships may hold the greatest power to make you either happy or miserable
— Shane Eric Mathias, The Happiness Tree: Grow Your Happiness by Cultivating a Healthy, Creative and Purposeful Life
Fun is closely related to Joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play of instinct.
— C.S. Lewis
A feeling of joy if not shared or tasted is a waste of a chance to be embraced.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
Of all the variables in your life, your relationships may hold the greatest power to make you happy or miserable
— Shane Eric Mathias, The Happiness Tree: Grow Your Happiness by Cultivating a Healthy, Creative and Purposeful Life
It is a great joy to open a new path; and then, it is a greater joy to see new people on this new path; but the greatest joy is to see the new people opening many more brand new paths via this new path!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You know you're in love when you open your heart knowing there’s a chance it may be broken but in opening your heart, you experience a love that you never dreamed possible.
— Theresa Lewis
do not cry , you can focus the light spot with the eyes , the eyes of your heart . smile
— Mister one
If you surrender your life to God, you have joy of His presence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The things that count the most (love, joy, justice, and grace) cannot be counted.
— Orrin Woodward
Be compassionate
—  bring joy to sadness.
A true friend sees your tears of sadness, And quickly turns them into tears of joy and laughter,Forming a rainbow.
— R. Benzadi
Life is singing with joy when you're smiling.
— Debasish Mridha
I will never accept life for what it is. I don't need an easy life. My road was meant to be hard because anything worth having in this world will take me to the very edge of myself. I will overcome everything I have ever gone through and will make my future the one God intended me to have. I will pick up the pieces of this pain and sculpt it into art. I am not ordinary and never was. I walk into my birthright as a queen with her head held high. I was born to do this!
— Shannon L. Alder
A person needed to experience real danger or they would never find joy in excelling. There had to be a risk of failure, the chance to die.
— Brandon Sanderson, Perfect State
Imagined happiness is still happiness.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse
Be cheerful and hopeful.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Joy is a choice, and it’s something we fight for and choose.
— Joshua Stannard, How Good Can It Get
We are doing a huge disservice to a dying world if a manifestation of the joy in us is not coming out of us.
— Joshua Stannard, How Good Can It Get
Joy is a characteristic of spiritual maturity and of surrender.
— Joshua Stannard, How Good Can It Get
The priceless gift of life, strength and time is our greatest wealth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Be thankful always.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Thou hast Drawn laughter from A well of secret tears And thence so elvish it rings, -mocking And sweet.
— Adelaide Crapsey, Verse by Adelaide Crapsey
Enjoy the ride while it still lasts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.
— Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
An act of kindness blossoms our lives with gladness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Attempt to be creative for the joy it brings . . . select something like music, dance, sculpture, or poetry. Being creative will help you enjoy life. It engenders a spirit of gratitude.
— Richard G. Scott
It is better to trade your bitterness with gratefulness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
May you find your purpose and passionately live it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
A joyful heart is an endless flowing stream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Go beyond the boundary of conformity to find the true joy of life.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
Christmas is holy celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. And God’s great love is the divinity of birth: the spirit of love, joy and hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
My life is full of love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
God’s presence in our lives is the peace of mind and joy at heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Fill life with joy.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
In Lower Pomerania is the Diamond Mountain, which is two miles and a half high, two miles and a half wide, and two miles and a half in depth; every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on it, and when the whole mountain is worn away by this, then the first second of eternity will be over.
— Jacob Grimm
The greatest joy in life comes not from winning but from giving.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
I wish you a joyful Christmas and a miraculous New Year.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
My heart gladdens, knowing someone think of at Christmas.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Every new morning brings new sunshine, new joy and new hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Eat like you love your body.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I celebrate life with holy thanks.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
My heart is filled with endless praise.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Live by your own sacred standard.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We give glory to God of Heaven.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
All glory to Adonai! Great is thy love.Great is thy mercy.Great is thy faithfulness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The beauty of existence is a passionate sacred-life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May the sacredness of Christmas gladden your heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Give glory to God. Great is the goodness of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Be happy with what you have.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You ought to give thanks to the Lord.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Happiness is a sacred bliss.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love life.Love light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Happiness is a great contentment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Beneath the rust and grime which dulls the shine of our weathered hearts, joy patiently waits to be rediscovered
— John Mark Green
Eating should be an act of physical necessity or emotional joy, not something to alleviate boredom.
— Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
To be fully alive, you must never stop dreaming.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
It is only in the presence of God, we find the fullness of life and joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We chase wild dreams and long for all that eludes us, when the greatest joys are within our grasp, if we can only recognize them.
— Ben Sherwood
Be grateful for what you have and you will always have enough.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Joy is immeasurable cheerfulness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Your greatest gift is your life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You will be happy, when you connect to the source of life, God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Happier'n young'uns bustin' outta school fer summer break!
— K.D. Harp, What a Tangled Wed
Prouder than a preschooler showin' refrigerator art!
— K.D. Harp
Cheaper'n recyclin' yer nose tissues. --Mema
— K.D. Harp
In the light, we shall brightly.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Don’t make your life complicated.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I am living life daringly.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
It is only God who can fill our void.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Happiness is immeasurable joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You can be happy with simple life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Man is hypocrite! He says that he loves flowers but he kills them for his own simple interests and for his own joy! Man is hypocrite!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The wealth of some people is here on earth. The wealth of other people is somewhere afar from the earth. Whatever the wealth may be, we must think of a wealth that is distinctive
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Be purpose oriented and remember that the ultimate source of joy is in giving
—  the ultimate purpose of life is happiness.
Inspire others without expecting anything in return. True joy is in giving.
— Debasish Mridha
Explore the timeless wonders of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Without an enthusiasm of existence, the fullness of life is missed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
This universe was created for joy and happiness. You are born to be happy. Your happiness ultimately makes this universe joyful. Blooming flowers, singing birds, and smiling people fill this universe with joy.
— Debasish Mridha
Birthday is a sacred-life celebration.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The joy of writing is the fullness of existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I have to learn to hear music, to see beauty, and to find joy in silence
— Debasish Mridha
I am grateful for all the goodness of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
When we sing with love, everything around us listens with joy.
— Debasish Mridha
I still have joy in the midst of struggles.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Your sacred time is now! Begin to live passionately.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Is there plenty of celebration in your life? How about your spiritual life? Is it an exercise in following rules and practices? Or does it look more like a joyous celebration?
— Steve Goodier
This is a feeling that you had, Quentin,' she said. 'Once, a very long time ago. A rare one. This is how you felt when you were eight years old, and you opened one of the Fillory books for the first time, and you felt awe and joy and hope and longing all at once. You felt them very strongly, Quentin. You dreamed of Fillory then, with a power and an innocence that not many ever experience. That's where all this began for you. You wanted the world to be better than it was.
— Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land
You will find joy in everyday life with a heart of thankfulness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If you had to lose everything, what would you miss most? It wouldn't be anything gross, like the big house, or the fancy car, assuming you had such things. It wouldn't be your impeccable reputation, or fame, or the regard of others. No; if you had to lose everything – I mean EVERYTHING – it would be the things you most take for granted now that you would miss. It would be different for each person, and it would probably surprise you to know what it was: a lilac tree in flower, the sound of a train in the distance, the smell of marmalade or hot buttered toast. Rain on a windowpane. A fruit thingummy.
— John Burnside
Cultivate the habit to write gratitude daily.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
How much joy have I missed in life because I was too afraid to enjoy?
— Debasish Mridha
Contentment is joy of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
To be happy without your wants is greatest contentment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Oh my friend from future centuries, I am leaving my love and endless good wishes for you. I have no possessions to leave for you. I have a broken pen and a few pages of paper with thoughts that I am leaving for you. Believe in the power of your thoughts, truths of your perceptions, magic of joy in your dreams, and the attraction of your love and purity.
— Debasish Mridha
Living life with contentment is the greatest well-being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be thankful for all that you have.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be grateful. You have enough and abundant life
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Let joy of the Lord make you rejoice.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be fully present in the sacred-moment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Life is gracious sacred-breathe.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Life is a gracious sacred-breathe.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When you are happy with what you have, you are the happiest.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Your heart is the roots to God.Your heart is nourished by truth, by God, but you have forgotten the heart.Come back to the heart, and you will be able to know the truth.You will be able to know the truth as the truth and the false as the false.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
Bitterness gives ill-health and waste life.Gratefulness leads to good health and happy life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Bitterness gives ill-health and waste life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Gratefulness leads to good health and happy life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Though I am faced with many adversities, my heart will not faint. The Lord is my comfort, my hope and my peace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Contentment is the greatest joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There is an unreasonable joy to be had from the observation of small birds going about their bright, oblivious business
— Grant Hutchison, The Complete Lachlan
They didn't get the friendships that formed, the community of people who shared in your same joy.
— Goldy Moldavsky, Kill the Boy Band
People come and people go, but God's love for you remains the same. No matter who decides to walk out on you. God will never leave you nor forsake you. His love is eternal.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
Love is the sparkle of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Our joyful moments give us what we need, and then remembering them resupplies us once again.
— Denesia Christine Huttula, The Bridges of Chara: An Allegory of Your Brain's Emotional Landscape
Live each day as if it was your last day on earth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If you don’t make your choices, others will give you’re their choice.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If you stay open to the wisdom of your Muse, you may discover you’re a playwright, a sculptor, a kitchen-table comedian, a beacon of creative kindness, or a person who chooses grace over ego and contentment over greed. And in that choice you will create an world of joy within yourself, you’ll truly be an artist of being alive.
— Jill Badonsky, The Muse Is In: An Owner’s Manual to Your Creativity
Be joyful for the fruit of your labour.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy. And now that I've found it, how can I give it up? Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have.
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
When you have enough, there is no need for excessiveness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The word of God gives hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Whenever you hold a grudge towards someone, you're only hurting you. Because the other person could care less about the emotions you're going through. Their main objective was to hurt you. Now you must let go, move on, and focus on your life. Don't continue to burden your spirit.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
In life we meet people and they come and go. But, only God will remain the same. Despite what others think, God's love is eternal. No matter who abandons you, God will never leave or forsake you.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
Be glad while you have breath.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A friend loves at all times.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The fear of any adventure is the root of unfilled life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Those small moments of pleasure men get from sin, from defying God, are perhaps grace - His final gift still to those who hard-heartedly choose to deny Him. Godless men may blatantly enjoy offending God not because they are free-spirited, but on the whole because He moves them to enjoy it. Sin is, in a sense, still touching God: for a strike involves a touch. Perhaps this is His divine kindness. Faithful men find everlasting fulfillment in His good company; but godless men who strike at the Author of Joy, who are completely ignorant of the greater, for them - and by God's love for His enemies - there is yet this small recoil known as 'pleasure' before the fall.
— Criss Jami, Healology
The sacredness of existence is spiritual.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The greatest life is to live your greatest dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it.
— Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
Gratitude gives infinite fullness of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
What you have made me see,' answered the Lady, 'is as plain as the sky, but I never saw it before. Yet is has happened every day. One goes into the forest to pick food and already the thought of one fruit rather than another has grown up in one’s mind. Then, may it be, one finds a different fruit and not the fruit one thought of. One joy was expected and another is given. But this I had never noticed before–that the very moment of the finding there is in the mind a kind of thrusting back, or setting aside. The picture of the fruit you have not found is still, for a moment, before you. And if you wished–if it were possible to wish–you could keep it there. You could send your soul after the good you had expected, instead of turning it to the good you had got. You could refuse the real good; you could make the real fruit taste insipid by thinking of the other.
— C.S. Lewis
Never accept what you don’t like to do.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There are two kinds of spirit
—  either light or darkness.
Enjoy the sacred existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You can only conquer hate with love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Live a simple life, doing what you love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The greatest life is to live for your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Joy is God’s presence in our lives.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Never envy others. Be happy and love your work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Happiness is a state of bliss.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Freedom, joy or bliss doesn't come from the situation that we think we should be, but it derives from the one that we are already in.
— Aditya Ajmera
We have joy for the assurance of the promise.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A good mother does not live only for her children. She always has some bond with other mothers, no matter what class, nationality or race they may be. All mothers have the same joys, the same sorrows, the same anxieties. All mothers think first of their child and of children.
— Werenfried Von Straaten
Gratitude is joyful act.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Don’t compare yourself with others. You are one of a kind!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Gratitude is a joyful act.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The beauty of the soul enfold in spiritual-life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Every voyage is a new glorious experience.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Life is enrich with every new adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Passionate living is the joy of existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others––especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!
— Cornel West, Black Prophetic Fire
Act in such a way that all those who come in contact with you will go away joyful. Sow happiness about you because you have received much from God; give, then, generously to others. They should take leave of you with their hearts filled with joy, even if they have no more than touched the hem of your garment.
— Maria Faustina Kowalska
I have made a personal decision NOT TO WORRY. This has tremendously contributed to my happiness!!
— Sandra M. Michelle, Get Happy and Stay Happy: 9 Principles for Creating Happiness
Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.
— Jefferson Bethke, Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough
O Lord, be magnified for your wondrous works.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I enjoy the times of plenteous and endure the times of scarceness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be glad while you can.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Work with joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We ought to live the fullness of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Each moment is just that... a moment. Whether good or bad it will pass to the next. Forward to the next and create a wonderful life.
— Gillian Duce
Each day, write a thankful note.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Never give up on your existence.Never give up on your dreams.Never give up on your love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
An enemy sees his attackers laughing? It is better than all the insults. A man who laughs as he goes into battle is a man who has confidence, and a man with confidence is terrifying to an enemy. “For the whore!” I shouted.
— Bernard Cornwell, Warriors of the Storm
Live a passionate life. Life can end any time, any day.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The bond of love is supernatural.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Hope is joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If I have nothing but life and books, I have everything.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Life is not a competition.There is enough work for everybody. Find your passion and fulfill it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be educated. Only true education and wisdom can lighten the burdens of your life and fill it with joy and happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
You are the greatest wife of all times and I love you so much more’ said my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love is the joy of the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Our power of being happy lies a good deal in ourselves, I believe.
— Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
If you experience sadness without craving that the sadness go away, you continue to feel sadness, but you do not suffer from it. There can actually be richness in the sadness. If you experience joy without craving that the joy linger and intensify, you continue to feel joy without losing your peace of mind.
— Yuval Noah Harari
So, you know that feeling just before you're gonna laugh? That thing when you get all bubbled up and there's this beautiful sort of... it's like a bubble of laughter but it hasn't come out yet? I said, that's the feeling I would say that... that's what God feel like. It's a feeling of joy and love and well-being.
— Goldie Hawn
Every joy that life gives must be earned ere it be secured; and how hardly earned, those only know who have wrestled for great prizes. The heart’s blood must gem with red beads the brow of the combatant, before the wreath of victory rustles over it.
— Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
I live each day with joyful hopes.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Sometimes we learn the lessons of life through pain, melancholy and the vicissitude of life and sometimes we learn the lessons of life through joy and comfort. Whatever the case may be, the most important thing is the great lesson we learn out of the lessons life teaches us. If you fail to learn the lessons greatly, life will teach you a great lesson.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
May you have a joyful and grateful spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.
— Shannon L. Alder
Today is a new chapter in the story of your life. While you're holding the pen, what will you write? Now, is your time to shine! Will you continue holding the pen? Or, will you express yourself from deep within?
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
People often tell themselves lies, in order to reach what they consider acceptance in difficult situations. In reality, they fool themselves into believing they are healed, until that lie is corrected by time, further information or their own personal growth. True healing comes when we learn to not avoid truth, but face it. Only then will we be set free.
— Shannon L. Alder
Misery loves company. For the sake of your sanity, avoid entertaining her.
— Andrena Sawyer
Sometimes we learn the lessons of life through pain, melancholy and the vicissitude of life and sometimes we learn the lessons of life through joy and comfort. Whatever be the case, the most important thing is the great lesson we learn out of the lessons life teaches us. If you fail to learn the lessons greatly, life will teach you a great lesson.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
People may not see you the way you see yourself. But, that's because they don't want to acknowledge your uniqueness. Jealousy is not disguised.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
When they said you wouldn't amount to anything, God saw the best in you. You can smile and have joy knowing you have favor in Him. God qualified you.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
Sometimes she worried that she was too happy. . . And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Most of the time when you laugh, it's because something is amiss - clumsy or wrong or sad - but when you laugh at a kitten, you laugh of pure joy.
— Laura Amy Schlitz
God loves each person, I believe; although, just like we do in our private homes, He reserves His kingdom only for those whom He enjoys.
— Criss Jami, Healology
We as a people have become so addicted to DYSFUNCTION that we don't recognize PEACE (man or woman) when it enters our energetic space.We call PEACE soft, too nice, pushover, doormat and other names because PEACE respects you. PEACE cares about & for you. PEACE doesn't want to argue, PEACE speaks it's mind with healthy discussion & at the end of the day, PEACE says I Love you. PEACE keeps their word. PEACE enjoys spending time with you & treating you better than anyone else ever has but because of our addiction, we say this is too good to be true. We wait for the other shoe to drop. We check PEACE phone, follow PEACE home or just dismiss PEACE altogether because something just ain't right!" LEAVE that phone alone, STOP looking for a reason, and CHANGE your mindset. "Once you have begun down this new path, your vibrations will change & PEACE will start to walk with you, YOU will attract his siblings-Love, Joy, Kindness, Happiness & your relationships will become everything you inwardly desired but secretly believed you were not worthy of attaining.
— Sanjo Jendayi
Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
People living godly will dwell on high. Meaning wealth, honour, prosperity, fame, elevation, joy etc.
— Sunday Adelaja
Gratitude is the well spring of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Every day is a part of life, so make it special.
— Siddhant R. Shinde
Life never be serious with you it always make fun of you so learn to have fun.
— Siddhant R. Shinde
God is always on time. Rejoice in the Lord! Your blessing is on the way. Don't fear the enemy who desires to stop it. No one can block what God has for you. Claim It,
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
Quoyle experienced moments in all colors, uttered brilliancies, paid attention to the rich sound of waves counting stones, he laughed and wept, noticed sunsets, heard music in rain, said I do.
— Annie Proulx
There is no REASON to keep SEASONAL people around for a LIFETIME.
— Auliq Ice
Hope is the joy of soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Lead with your beautiful & equisite heart Dear Ones as it will lead you to the TREASURE that is YOU.
— Suzie Abels
If a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is.
— Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
People who are afraid of death are afraid of lif
— François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness
Happiness is when you fight for souls that barely hang on.
— Shannon L. Alder
Be happy and enjoy your sacred time on earth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Joy sat in my throat like an egg resting on a spoon, quiet and fragile, but real.
— Shannon Kopp, Pound for Pound: A Story of One Woman's Recovery and the Shelter Dogs Who Loved Her Back to Life
I think the greatest sound in the world is hearing one of your children singing when they think no one is listening.
— Ron Baratono
There’s surprising relief and regeneration in finding ourselves within a moment of genuine grace, however small or temporary it may be.
— Darrell Calkins
Sending out the Disciples Luke 10 1: AFTER THESE THINGS THE LORD APPOINTED OTHER SEVENTY DISCIPLES AND HE SENT THEM TWO AND TWO BEFORE HIS FACE INTO EVERY CITY AND PLACE; WHITHER HE HIMSELF WOULD COME God is here and now. God is not something outside you, God is within you. God is the innermost core of existence. That is what Jesus means with: "Repent, for the kingdom of God is near". God is not separate from the creation. He is one with the creation. When you understand this, your life becomes a prayer. When you understand this, you will understand that existence is a family. You will understand that life is togetherness. When we discover our authentic inner being, the kingdom of God, we understand that everybody is a messenger. We discover that the divine source expands, and we spread love to all with whom we interact. Jesus sent out his disciples two and two, so that they did not have to go alone. They went two and two in friendship, in love, in trust, so that they could help each other.THEREFORE SAID HE UNTO THEM, THE HARVEST TRULY IS GREAT, BUT THE LABORERS ARE FEW The harvest is great, but there are not many laborers. People are deaf and blind. Somebody like Jesus comes, and you do not want to listen. It has always been like this. Rather than listening to Jesus, people get so jealous of Jesus, that they crucified him. Only very aware and understanding people will listen to Jesus. GO YOUR WAYS: BEHOLD I SEND YOU FORTH AS LAMBS AMONG THE WOLVES Jesus knows that he is sending his disciples into a dangerous world. People will not understand what they say, they do not want to listen, and they cling to their ideas and their tradition. Jesus knows that trust is to be attacked. He knows that love is to be attacked. CARRY NEITHER PURSE, NOR SHOES, AND SALUTE NO MAN BY THE WAY AND INTO WHATSOVER HOUSE YE ENTER, FIRST SAY, PEACE BE TO THIS HOUSE Jesus says that the love and the truth can create troubles for you. "Do not carry purse, do not wear shoes, go barefoot. Do not salute no man on the road". Be ordinary, be simple, be egoless. Jesus says bring peace to the house, because only in that peaceful milieu can the message can delievered. Create a spiritual vibration of peace, spread the feeling of peace, and if you are really feeling it, it will spread. When somebody comes to see you, settle within yourself, Become silent. And you will see a change in the man. We are joined together by our hearts. We exist as parts of one heart. That heart is God. If you create a feeling of peace, it will spread around you. If your gift of peace is accepted, it will be good. If it is not accepted, if you gift is rejcted, it is also good. The peace will still shower on you.HE THAT HEARETH YOU, HEARETH ME, AND HE THAT DESPISETH YOU, DESPISETH ME: AND HE THAT DESPISETH ME DESPISETH HIM THAT SENT ME Jesus says: If people hear you, they hear me. And if they hear me, they hear the one who has sent me.
— Swami Dhyan Giten, The Way, the Truth and the Life: On Jesus Christ, the Man, the Mystic and the Rebel
To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.
— Maya Angelou
God is my hope and my joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
When you meet joyEven in that momentary experience, This ephemeral emotion unravelsAll those colors of contentmentWhich sparkle from within
— Balroop Singh
In Paris, choosing a dress is a monumental decision. In Milan, it’s a kick.
— Chris Dee, Cattitude
I am happy I live in the city of light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
My heart is filled with gladness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The knowledge of God’s greatness is joy of the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Joy is sacred blessing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Joy is celestial.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Any lack of joy in the world is the result of disobedience.
— Carolyn Shields
Apply analysis when appropriate, but keep it on a short leash when joy beckons.
— Alan Cohen
Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
In your winter you deny your spring,
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Every travel is blessed adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Fast rather than slow, more rather than less--this flashy "development" is linked directly to society's impending collapse. It has only served to separate man from nature. Humanity must stop indulging the desire for material possessions and personal gain and move instead toward spiritual awareness.Agriculture must change from large mechanical operations to small farms attached only to life itself. Material life and diet should be given a simple place. If this is done, work becomes pleasant, and spiritual breathing space becomes plentiful.
— Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
Erica's despair has nothing to do with lack of motherly love. She loved Maja fiercely and sincerely. At the same time she felt as if she'd been invaded by an alien parasite that sucked all joy out of her and forced her into a shadow existence that had nothing in common with the life she'd lived before.
— Camilla Läckberg
My love for you is passionate and strong.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
— Chuck Palahniuk
There is no joy greater than the triumph of living.
— Emmanuelle de Maupassant, The Gentlemen's Club
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal
— Susan Vreeland, Lisette's List
The greatest joy in traveling is seeing where you end up.
— Ken Poirot
All joy lies in the present moment. The journey of life and prosperity are made of the present moment.
— Matthew Donnelly
I work with great gladness for what I want.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The real you is not you, the real you is what is within you. What is behind your joy or your melancholy. What gives you the reason to ponder. What moves or stops you. What makes you you is you.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We must be so careful that we do not refuse the cross that the Lord has given us to carry. Let us remember that our present sufferings serve to prepare us for entering into the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ.
— Corrie ten Boom, Father Ten Boom, God's Man
Hmm. I think love is about loving all things, to treat each and every thing and every one as a sovereign being that’s free to make its own choices.
— Michael  Sanders, Ayahuasca: An Executive's Enlightenment
The prayer that is heard is not of many words....but of Oneness
— Vivian Amis, The Lotus: Realization of Oneness
I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
Everyday is a gift and a very special day
—  so let us celebrate with joy and profound gratitude.
Give when you have nothing to give. That is when it will bring you the most joy.
— Debasish Mridha
One should never go dancing with a broken foot, but one should with a broken heart.
— Marty Rubin
He’s not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander’s delusion—prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
The real you is not you
—  the real you is what is within you. What is behind your joy or your melancholy. What gives you the reason to ponder. What moves or stops you. What makes you you is you
You live one time on earth. Live each day with thankful heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
— James Thurber
Smile with joy.
— Debasish Mridha
My greatest hope is to be a mother who loves Jesus with a deep and abiding affection that joyfully overflows to my children.
— Melissa B. Kruger, Walking with God in the Season of Motherhood: An Eleven-Week Devotional Bible Study
We find happiness doing what we love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Isn’t it wonderful that our bodies can give us so much pleasure?” he said to her once, quite simply. They were happy and radiantly innocent. They were both incapable of the conception that joy is sin.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
What am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness
—  but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness
Silence is the herald of joy
— William Shakespeare
The statue was of a young man with a tall, gaunt body and an angular face. He held his head as if he faced a challenge and found joy in his capacity to meet it.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Selfish people are always seeking ways to advance themselves. They only notice you when you have something beneficial to them. Realize when someone is using you for their own personal gains and put a stop to it.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
Let us make the earth peaceful to enjoy the joy and beauty of spring.
— Debasish Mridha
Harvest time is a time of joy.
— Sunday Adelaja
Not all honey— she had concluded— had a specific use beyond what all honey is good for, sweetness and salves. But this honey, it was somehow so strong that it must be for something, though she had still not learnt what it was. The best she had come to was that this honey was for joy...
— Robin McKinley, Chalice
In winter, on the darkest nights, one rejoices even to see the tiniest sliver of a moon.
— Marty Rubin
Is it difficult to recognize spring when the air is dancing with joy and the flowers are blooming bright colorful smiles?
— Debasish Mridha
Your self-defense becomes a self-defeat when you are doing it for selfish reasons! It's not about you and your pocket alone
—  let it be for the collective joy of your entire neighbourhood and beyond!
A flower may die after giving beauty, love, and joy, but it will not vanish. It will transform into a fruit of eternal joy.
— Debasish Mridha
It's time to stop focusing on what others think of you. They think they know you, but don't. They're stuck in the figment of their imagination.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
Stay inspired, happy and joyful.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
It's great to be self confident, but some people are very egotistical. Once you realize the world doesn't revolve around you and change your attitude, you'll truly walk in your purpose.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
When you manage your expectations, you let yourself soak in the joy of what is actually happening around you.
— Andrea Goeglein
Jesus was a man of love, of immense compassion. He loved this earth, the people, the threes, because that is the way to love God. God is life. Jesus is very life-affirmative. He says total yes to life. When you look into the eyes of each being that you meet, you meet God. Everybody is an incarnation of God - the threes, the flowers, the rocks, the animals, the people and the mountains. Love the people, love the threes, love the animals - and through the love you meet God. All are brothers here, because God is one. The threes, the flowers, the birds and the rocks are all your brothers, because they all come from the one source. if you are not reconciled with the world, you cannot pray to God. Prayer is only possible when you are in harmony with existence. The whole existence is your brother. The first step for prayer is to be reconciled with your brother. And your brother means all beings. Jesus is a celebration of being, a celebration of life. If you deny life, you deny God. If you say no to life, you say no to God, because God is life. To understand Jesus, you have to understand that life is God. If you say yes to life, you will feel a prayer arising in your heart, a yes arising in your being. The ego is a no to life, the ego is a separation from life. The inner being is a yes to life. The inner being is a deep yes and acceptance of life. Saying yes bridges you with the whole. It makes you a part of the whole. Saying yes will make you more and more spiritual. Jesus whole message is yes. The word "amen" means yes. You will never meet God, you will meet human beings, animals, stones and threes. You can love God through other human beings, through threes, through stones and through animals. And when you have learnt to love God through all his forms - then only love changes into prayer.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
I cannot detain Love, holding him captive so that he may never break my heart. No more than I can stick Guilt in a pot so that I may boil him until all of my sins are vaporized, rising alongside the screaming steam. I cannot hold Sorrow in my arms and rock him to a fit and endless sleep. Nor can I search for Joy and effortlessly find him beneath the pink-dusted sky of late afternoon, where he waits for me with open arms.
— Kelseyleigh Reber, If I Resist
When joy is LOST, hope can easily FIND it... It's only your HOPE, that knows the where about of your JOY! If you lose hope you lose everything!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
When you allow God to be manifested through you, you will experience a great joy.
— Sunday Adelaja
Joy of harvest belongs only to those who endure the pain of sowing.
— Sunday Adelaja
Joy is the ultimate reward in life.
— Sunday Adelaja
Your first reaction to any attack should be joy in the Holy Ghost
— Sunday Adelaja
Please don't let the unhappiness you knew in the past keep you from accepting happiness now.
— Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life
The only reason you continue to love someone who treats you poorly is because you don't value yourself enough.
— Rob Liano
Many people, who should have been rejoicing for what they've achieved, are rather regretting just because of one reason; they looked at what someone else was doing. Comparison eliminates contentment and then kills inner joy!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
It is clear we exist in an abundant living Universe that knows no restriction—only the impulse to eternally expand with no limits or boundaries, perpetually becoming more of what it is and can ever be—star-stuff . . . Life, pushing out by creating light and matter from within itself, shaping and giving form to itself, exquisitely clothing itself in an infinite and unique number of ways.
— Dennis Merritt Jones, Your Redefining Moments: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be
At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.
— Alison Croggon, The Naming
We only feel joy when we love our precious life.
— Debasish Mridha
When someone loves you, a river of positive charges flow inside you to fill you with joy and bliss.
— Debasish Mridha
She cries,I laugh,She becomes numb,I become filled with joy,She slowly crumbles,I feel on top of the world,Yet somehow in the end,Out of the ashes,She rose like a Phoenix,As if nothing had ever touched her
— Tanzy Sayadi, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
...she felt as if her entire body were glowing with the taste of sunlight, of wind blowing in wide spaces and trees reaching their burdened arms to boundless skies.
— Alison Croggon, The Naming
We owe it to the dead to dance on their graves.
— Marty Rubin
Whatever situation you are in, you should find an opportunity to renew your strength in the Lord, so that your problems don’t affect your joy, your peace and rest.
— Sunday Adelaja
He was familiar enough with pleasure to know it might become jaded or reluctant; but joy was literally foreign to him, a word he would never easily pronounce, an exhilaration that had some other reckless nationality. For this reason, Caro's wholeness in love, her happiness in it, made her exotic.
— Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus
Joy come and go like pleasant breeze. It's the miseries that stick in you like thorns - until you realize that it's all your doing.
— Sadghuru
Idolatry, like all sin, is devastating to the soul. It cuts us off from the comforts of grace, the peace of conscience, and the joy that is to be our strength.
— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus
Happiness is more of a necessity than a choice thus we must consider it a priority in everyday's life.
— Auliq Ice
there can be occasions when we suddenly and involuntarily find ourselves loving r=the natural world with a startling intensity, in a burst of emotion which we may not fully understand, and the only word that seems to me to be appropriate for this feeling is joy
— Michael McCarthy
No matter how long your night may have been, as the earth remains, your morning will definitely come.
— Pedro Okoro, The Ultimate Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Learn to Fight from Victory, Not for Victory!
It’s a privilege to serve God. Above all, serving God is joy and happiness!
— Sunday Adelaja
If you have really given your burden over to God, then soon your ministry will bring you great joy!
— Sunday Adelaja