Joy Quotes

Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure.

Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?

Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Man can rebuild a pyramid, but he can't rebuild ecology, or a giraffe.

Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.

wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.

I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

Come in, my dearFrom that harsh worldThat has rained elements of stoneUpon your tender face.Every soulShould receive a toast from usFor bravery!

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.

A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part.

Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what's the point?

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

How else could she know that it needed all the strength of my love for her to leave now and give her back to nature - to let her learn to live alone until she might find her pride - her real pride?

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

To manifest your hearts desires you must BE what your heart desires.

There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.

Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.

[On lions:] It has always seemed miraculous to me that these colossal animals can move noiselessly through the bush, and are thus able to surround one without warning.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.