#joy

"Whatever fills your heart with joy and fills your mind with love--that is your truth of love."

"From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom."

"Totally present in this moment for you."

"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

"Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven."

"The key is loveIt is the gatewayTo hopeTo joyTo enhanced livingLove is the answer"

"A flower blossoms for its own joy."

"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm."

"Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling"

"Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection."

"Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail."

"Joy is distinctly a Christian word and a Christian thing. It is the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the result of what happens of an agreeable sort. Joy has its spring deep down inside. And that spring never runs dry, no matter what happens. Only Jesus gives that joy."

"It's not strength, it's PERCEPTION that makes you stronger. If you change how you SEE it, you'll change how you FEEL about it."

"If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship."

"Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes."

"The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content."

"...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment."

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

"I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go."

"A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on books. I offered him free books, but he insisted on giving me his quarters. He walked away filled with joy as if he possessed the world's riches in his hands. In a way, he did. He left me smiling and knowing that he was wealthier than many others... (01-21-10)"