#joy

"It’s true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It’s a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now."

"With love and kindness, grow peace in your mind and then spread it with joy."

"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."

"Success is the relentless pursuit of joy."

"Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life."

"But that's just it; I can either focus on what I have lost, or what I have gained, and I choose the latter."

"The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul -- breaking the mental manacles -- getting the brain out of bondage -- giving courage to thought -- filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy."

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

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

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

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

"Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow."

"A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable and full of glory, is a humble broken-hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit, and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behaviour."

"I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art."

"I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for."

"I’ll be your Dostoevsky, if you’ll be my Tolstoy. Our life together will be so full of despair that death will be like a gulag full of joy."

"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."

"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."

"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."

"To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul."