You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.

Oh! The blissful sounds of natureSink deep into your heartGive eternal joy,All anxiety melts away. 

When you overlook an insult, you keep your peace.Don’t give away your joy to troublemakers.

[I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I’ve never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was...

All I’m saying is that I want you to be happy. I don’t care how it happens, or what it takes to facilitate it. I don’t care if it happens with me or without me....

As you travel along the roads in life, there is a certain kind of peace that comes with knowing you’re on the right path. And when you are faced with adversity, it challenges you but...

I can’t do that because I have to pick up the kids, and run my business, and … and … who’s got time for fun? Are you insane?” If you don’t have time for fun,...

You are most beautiful when your eyes are glowing with kindness and joy.

Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly...

The relationship you take for granted is the one that needs the greatest work.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven’t got it

I am afloat on a sea of foaming joy and delight.

Positive people know what they are about to do and why. Because of this, when they are being haunted by the premature quest to give up, they focus their minds onto the joy of accomplishing...

Something in the air this morning made me feel like flying. . . “Spring Flight

You are a gift, so open yourself everyday to see the beauty with love, wonder and feel the joy.

Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive.

Hope keeps us alive. Love gives us joy. Perception of inner joy open the door toward the happiness.

Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world.

You did not invent these family habits. Your family is like mine, for thousands and thousands of years our families have embraced a dysfunctional lifestyle, passing these habits as gospel on to subsequent generations. This...

you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.

I’ll be singing hymns to the rafters, be praising His goodness so loud they’re going to have to turn down the volume in Heaven.

Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.

Joys are like stray cats…the more you feed them…the more you get! ~Bertha

There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it.

Don’t work for something in Exchange, Work on something for a Change.

At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

Be thankful and joyful.Be content with life.Make the most of every situation.

Whenever there is love beyond boundaries …. Whenever trust flows deeper than oceans …. Nevertheless, a Trial is born …. You pass that trial, sacred you shall be …. if you don’t, your are immortal...

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

To be of the Earth is to know the restlessness of being a seed the darkness of being planted the struggle toward the light the pain of growth into the light the joy of bursting...

Long ago, the gods argued over where to hide the secret to happiness, so that in finding it, the people would appreciate its importance. One god suggested a high mountain-top. Another wanted to bury it...

Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There’s no need to tell the children that.

The author of Hebrews says what kept him (Jesus) going was “the joy set before him” (Hebrews 12:2). The joy of accomplishing what had been lovingly planned from the beginning…the joy of pleasing his Father....

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!

Our play is not something separate from our spirituality; it is itself a sign of the presence of God in the world.

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.