We can never know the impact a simple smile has on another. Smiling is one of the easiest things we can do. Is there a simpler, more effortless way to give everyone you meet a...

People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

Every time I look into her eyes, I get a positive inspiration to serve humanity.

The greatest joy is knowing the Lord.

Live, not just for livingLive, not just for gettingLive for the beauty of lovingLive for the joy of giving.

Simplicity and humility, not power or status, will bring you joy and happiness.

Let us talk about our love, joy and happiness. Let us forgive and forget talking about misery and sadness.

In essence, joy is the quiet confidence that everything will work out right. The best part of being filled with joy is that it’s contagious. Your joy overflows. You can’t keep it to yourself. It...

Although we may encounter dark seasons, when we’re filled with joy we’ll have confident expectations that the sun will soon return and dark clouds will pass.

Through life, I want to walk gently. I want to treat all of life – the earth and its people – with reverence. I want to remove my shoes in the presence of holy ground....

The emotional scars of our mistakes will teach us far more than the joy of our successes

But let me offer a word of caution. If you choose to give from your heart, be careful. The most incredible feeling might just overwhelm you. And if you continue in this behavior, that feeling...

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. … Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity,...

Good dancers awaken the joy in our hearts, we have seen them ablaze on stage, videos, on our streets, in the theaters, in our homes, schools and they have successfully ignited the love of dancing...

Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

There is a madness that is joy, and a madness that is just madness.

You can have all the money in the world, one of the biggest mansions ever built, be one of the most famous people in the world, and still be as unhappy as Mariah Carey was....

Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who...

Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens—even when things go wrong.

And maybe that was how it was supposed to be…Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just...

words are like nets – we hope they’ll cover what we mean, but we know they can’t possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

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...

God’s gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

{From Luther Burbank’s funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death threats. He tried to amiably answer them all, leading to his death}It is impossible to...

We have been shown how to fight hate without becoming hate ourselves. We have been given a Companion and a Friend and not just a good idea. We have been given joy in the midst...

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn’t necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

Lies are like anchovies in a Caesar salad. You may not be able to see them, but your soul knows they are there.

You can’t put a price on fun; it’s always priceless

Peace and supreme joy may seem like end-states to practitioners on more difficult spiritual paths, but the path of devotion should be filled with peace and joy from the very beginning. Their absence is an...

You have to appreciate where you have come from to know who you are in the present and whom you would like to be in the future.

Happiness comes easier when I’m thinking of you.

You are the missing piece of my heart and soul. United we are now whole.

I want to explore every aspect of you.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

Meditation is the way to be with ourselves and to learn to accept our own aloneness. In aloneness, I experiment with being consciously alone as a door to be egoless. In conscious aloneness, the ego...

Even when we’re standing at the scariest precipice ever, our soul still cries out for joy.

Scatter joy!

The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us.

True humility means giving joy to others.

There’s a war on. We don’t know how anything’s going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

Your current situation = the life expectations you have accepted as completed, unless you change your comfort zone to create a better life.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Unconditional Love is the outer expression of Inner Peace.

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

Instead of filling with expectations, the joy-filled expect nothing–and are filled.