#joy

"You are the ruler of my heart. There is no measure greater than this."

"Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose."

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

"The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father."

"Teach a child to love his world deeply so that he may find the beauty and joy of life."

"There I was, waiting, afraid I’d never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same."

"And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires."

"Believe God for something today. Prayer is the key to connecting with God and allowing Him to speak to your spirit. Open your heart and free your mind."

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."

"The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go."

"The lesson will always repeat itself, unless you see yourself as the problem--not others."

"That’s the thing about love It can take you up to the mountaintop and can drop you And the impact will either kill you or make you a new person"

"The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others."

"Inner calmness and peace is more important that outer joy."

"God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest."

"Love life. Live your life with joy so you may fill the world with joy. Let no one leave your presence without feeling the joy of life."

"With every sunrise, I rise with joy. My heart dances with love. I begin a new life fresh like a flower."

"No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping."

"And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not."

"Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?"