Joy Quotes
The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart.
Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.
Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.
O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.
The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance
Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish.
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.
Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.
When I am around someone who is a joy stealer, I say to myself, I only have to deal with you for an hour. That person has to deal with thinking that way every moment of their lives.
My idea of Heaven is what we've got right now, right here!-All this beauty and pleasure and fun and inspiration and spirit and fellowship and joy, all of this and more so and more of it!
If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.
You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.
That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.
Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe.
Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?
Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.
If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!
A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.
Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.
By unlinking your money motivation from anger, fear, and the need to prove yourself, you can install new links for earning your money through purpose, contribution, and joy.
I learned that gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living.
Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.
What are the proper grounds for joy? Is it circumstance which will determine the stature of my spirit? Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice - in the face of any event - for joy.
Our present tears here, not our present laughter Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.
If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.
What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?
The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.
Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world.
The commands of God are given, not to rob me of joy, but lead me into the fullness of joy.
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.
Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul; it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquillity.
It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.
Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.