Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn’t mine anymore, but one in which I’d found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a...

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.

This is the joy of a lifetime, … I am speaking on behalf of all the people that suffered under his rule.

Find your own joy within and then greater joy will be added to you.

Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness that made one smile, then.

Choose joyful abundance in your heart and be unbounded, free, and relaxed. Be relentless with your choice and you’ll make your mark.

To Savor The Scene, A Book, or A Friend.

Quiet moments bring you closer to God. It’s your silent time within your own private sanctuary. People have so many things to talk about, worry about, think about, without giving themselves peace within. Quiet moments...

You make the choice concerning who you associate with on a daily basis. Whenever there are people around you who continually gossip or nag, you have the option to entertain that nonsense or leave it...

Revive your inner spirit! Break free from all things weighing you down, grab hold of your strong rope and lift yourself out of hopelessness!

There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.

For a few minutes the anxiety that tormented him had vanished, leaving his mind as serene as the beauty he looked at. Very lovely, he thought, are the sudden moments of relief that come in...

My mind to me a kingdom is,Such present joys therein I find,That it excels all other blissThat world affords or grows by kind.Though much I want which most would have,Yet still my mind forbids to...

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it

Life’s good when it’s lived for oneself; it’s great when lived for others. The true means of happiness is to lose your mind by thinking for others!

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There’s a fantastic joy in destroying something that...

Writing comes from the fear of failure not from the joy of winning.

The rule for J.O.Y is Jesus, Others and You. You can’t have a perfect joy if all you think about is about how to groom your life!

We are the source of infinite love, infinite joy, and infinite happiness, but we spend our whole life looking for love, joy and happiness. How foolish is this?

In our unpacking process, we must own it before we can disown it!” EL

LET’S GO BACK HOMEI can’t think about you,Without smiling.What I wouldn’t give,To go back there,Take you in my arms,Kiss you, And tell you,”I still love you.”It’s been three decades now,And still your smile’s with me,Your...

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.

Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.

A Second Childhood.”When all my days are endingAnd I have no song to sing,I think that I shall not be too oldTo stare at everything;As I stared once at a nursery doorOr a tall tree...

To be God’s people, to love Him fervently with whole hearts, is our sole desire.

It’s easy to be heavy; hard to be light.

The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

Tomorrow always has the potential for sunshine.

But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses the same words as Pain.

If there is a particular person in your life that is repeatedly choosing not to honor you and is causing you more sadness or pain than they are joy – it might be time to...

You can’t dissect a joy without killing it.

Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life. It Really Is.

Now some of you will say that the two are one and the same – happiness and joy – but this is not so. Happiness is a feeling. Happiness is fleeting, dependent on the moment,...

I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your...

The poet’s expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.

Whisper sweetly the tenderness of the moment. Let the love teach you the true meaning and passion of this experience we share. With gratitude and reverence for the blessings and miracles I receive and witness,...

More than almost anything else, the experience of parenthood exposes the gulf between our experiencing and remembering selves. Our experiencing selves tell researchers that we prefer doing the dishes — or napping, or shopping, or...

It should be the art of Christians to present death as a passage to a better life, to labour to bring our souls into such a condition, as to think death not to be a...

Every single day, no matter who you meet in the day – friends, family, work colleagues, strangers – give joy to them. Give a smile or a compliment or kind words or kind actions, but...

Pure truth is always present, but it is each soul’s choice to decide when he or she wants it to be revealed.

A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion.

In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day – or to celebrate each special day.

Fear will paralyze you and prohibit growth

You are my perfect sentiment.

All paths lead me to you.

Every song is a story unfolding.