#joy

"There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead."

"Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open."

"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven."

"I have drunken deep of joy,And I will taste no other wine tonight."

"Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal."

"If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself."

"It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade."

"Caring is what matters, not stuff or status, just people sharing kindness & joy in a web of the heart that spans the globe."

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

"Success is the relentless pursuit of joy."

"I am thankful to all the souls, I meet in the journey of life."

"And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own."

"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."

"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."

"Is it better to be feared or loved? Loved, because people associate with you because they want to, not because they need to. We need to eat beets, but we want to eat cake. Be the cake of the world."

"A flower blooms with all of her power and love to give you joy and to beautify this world. Is she conscious, unconscious, or super conscious?"

"Totally present in this moment for you."

"We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn't we? The wonderful thing is that when we start spreading joy, we begin to actually experience more joy in our lives too!"

"Nurturing a feeling makes it proliferate. Choose wisely. Joy, kindness, love, & caring will illuminate your life."

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