You are here to feel the joy of life by empowering, enabling, enlightening humanity so that humanity may find its own 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...

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

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

Joy is meant to be felt; its not meant to be detained. It is meant to be shared with others; not to be felt alone. When all the mouths smile out their teeth together, thats...

The beauty of your smile fills me with the joy of life.

Embrace love; it’s the best gift you’ll ever find in life. Lift your joy off the ground by loving what you do and doing what you love.

To feel pure joy, sell your pride and be loving and kind.

Joy is not a denial of painful circumstances, but a certainty that He is at work while we are in them. EL

…[T]wo of you can be no match for the three giants, I will find you, if I can, a third brother, who will take on himself the third share of the fight, and the preparation…I...

Mindfulness allows you to face the past with courage, whether it is scarred with pain or caressed with joy, and it gently holds you in the safe haven of the present without allowing you to...

The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable.

Realize that the tests you endure will mold your character, persona, and will. The more heartbreak and pain you will feel with your trials in life, the greater your joy and glory will be once...

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don’t have...

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

Without pain, how could we know joy?’ This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to...

The process of thinking is a way of analyzing and making the right assumption at the right moment in life.

may he bring you life, and in that life, may you find joy.

I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn’t we embrace such simple joys?

The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.

You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

Joy doesn’t ever leave, you know. It’s always with you. And one day you’ll find it again.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy

The endWhen I die bang on cansRomp around in leaps and boundsLet whips crack in the airCall in clowns and acrobats!I want my coffin to go on a donkeyDecked out in Andalusian styleYou can’t refuse...

There were no windows in the Stockholders’ Records Section of the Treasurer’s Department of the American Forge and Foundry Company. But the soft, sweet music from the loudspeaker on the green wall by the clock,...

Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We...

These are the hands of Rachel Joy Scott and one day, will touch millions of people’s hearts.

The spiritual things that you may not be able to see and feel are just as real as the things you can. God puts faith in place so you can believe in Him and all...

Words of love cast from thy lips reach another heart at lightning speed.

Joy is here now. We don’t have to wait for the weekend.

Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.

Unquenchable desire for interconnectedness. Sate me.

Pave the path for a more righteous life.

You are my miracle.

If she know how strongly he felt, she’d have run out the door. He wasn’t used to the possessive, or the savage joy she brought to his heart. It ate at his control, so he...

Every loving word and action create a far reaching ripple effect – like the waves of the ocean.

Our inner male and female sides are expressed on the outside as relationships. Often our longer and deeper relationships with an outer man or woman are a mirror of our own inner man or woman.

Some of you may imagine that it is source of joy for the Lord to take a human form. If you are in this state, you will not feel so.

I trust all joy

Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.

When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with out fruits with joy.

I need no alibi,I did steal your heart.

When the Self is freed from mind there are no limits to what one can experience.

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

What you feed your soul is what you harvest with your actions.

We are working well when we use ourselves as the fellow creatures of the plants, animals, materials, and other people we are working with. Such work is unifying, healing. It brings us home from pride...

Some people like to bitch, Rose said. Bitching is OK. But for me, I choose a kind of joy — a lucid compulsion — a polemical kind of fuck-you-motherfucker joy.