Joy come and go like pleasant breeze. It’s the miseries that stick in you like thorns – until you realize that it’s all your doing.

Our willingness to suffer for Him takes away fear and instills the blessed joy.

Strike, with hand of fire, O weird musician, thy harp strung with Apollo’s golden hair; fill the vast cathedral aisles with symphonies sweet and dim, deft toucher of the organ keys; blow, bugler, blow, until...

The cure is as simple as this: Live your words and live your belief system.

You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.

If it be a point of humanity for man to bring health and comfort to man, and especially to mitigate and assuage the grief of others, and by taking from them the sorrow and heaviness...

We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.

Psalm 139 and Jeremiah 29:11

I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I’ve seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of...

Joy is a practice, not an involuntary state.

There is reason for joy.

Nurturing a feeling makes it proliferate. Choose wisely. Joy, kindness, love, & caring will illuminate your life.

There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it… We realized how full we felt; we were surrounded by music and dancing and...

Do not be ashamed of your past. Learn from those experiences and move forward in your life. Teach others of the possibilities of change & living victoriously. You are a survivor.

Never chase a person, because if they want to be in your life, they will. It amazes me how people go out their way for someone who does nothing for them, doesn’t encourage or support...

Healing is the journey. The destination is our self. The full recognition of all the different aspects of our self — our joy, our sorrow, our pain, our pleasure….all lead us to the source of...

To feel the joy too much:let us trust too much,let us love too much, let us hope too muchand let us belong too much.

May you fill your days with love, laughter, and joy.

Friendship is thinking of the other person first.

For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one’s joy with others who do...

Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering…

Many were the steps taken in doubt, that saw their shapeless ends in no time. Those who travail in faith today will truimph in joy tomorrow. Let faith lead the way.

Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which made one drunk, which one longed for, envied, believed in, that was not life. It...

What a world we are living in.Their is rain for rain, light for light and trees for all.

If hard work is the source of happiness, then we can conclude that the main job of procrastination is to delay that happiness for excuses to kill.

Whenever you smile, whenever you care, whenever you love, whenever you share, your spirit will dance with joy because happiness is there.

The root of joy is gratefulness…It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

Men ask for a rainbow in the cloud; but I would ask more from Thee. I would be, in my cloud, myself a rainbow — a minister to others’ joy. My patience will be perfect...

If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

The greatest obstruction to our joy in God is not a lack of time.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

You have never let me down. You are always there for me. You are the best part of me, who I want to be, and every time I look at you I can hardly believe...

The only duty you owe is to yourself and to your family.The duty you owe to yourself is to do the best you can, and the duty you owe to your family is to endeavor...

If I were to measure my successes by the mistakes that I have made & only focus on the lessons that were learned along the way, then that in itself overall, would be a positive...

We have the keys to open the Heavens door; Bible reading and prayer.

Drink freely the wine life offers you and don’t worry how much you spill.

Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over...

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

The greatest measure of success is the amount of joy you experience.

A One-Liner used at the right time and at the right place will create a greater impact than any story ever told in the world.

Some of you say, ‘Joy is greater thar sorrow,’ and others say, ‘Nay, sorrow is the greater.’But I say unto you, they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits, alone with you at your...

My art is an act of creation and destruction, with all the sorrow and joy these engender as well as all the shadow and light these contain.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

It’s an ongoing joy being a dad.

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.

If you retain the joyous aftereffects of meditation throughout the day, or part of the day, you will see that this joy will correctly guide you in everything. Saints are guided by this joy, in...

It may be difficult, but there will be times we need to pick up our brooms and do some spiritual house cleaning. It is through this process that we find our true relationships, our true...

There is great power in our words, because theyare thoughts to which we have given additional energy by speaking them aloud so another person can know them.

To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow from which to distinguish the sound of joy.