Joy Quotes
No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.
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.
Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.
If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair. Make a song for death, a song for yellow teeth and bad breath
My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our differences.
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.
They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!
Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.
The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.
Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.
Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.
Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and gifts
Everyone thinks I'm Jewish. I'm not. Last year I got a call: "Happy Hanukkah." I said "Ma, I'm not Jewish."
Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she's not a beautiful woman and she's getting older. But you're saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she's talking about.
The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.
To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits no half measures and is unforgiving of mistakes.
I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.
You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.
Statistically, skinny women die younger than fat women. Why? Because fat women are killing them.
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.
Without close and reciprocal relationships with other animal beings, we're alienated from the rich, diverse, and magnificent world in which we live.
If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.
The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.
You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life.
I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.
Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.
