Quotes About Joy

Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.

He slipped his hands around my waist and pulled me against him, tossing the ice cream cone over his shoulder. It landed with a splat on the sidewalk. So does that mean I have a varsity girlfriend? I giggled like a total girl and linked my hands behind his neck. Yeah I guess it does. Sweet. Then he bent his head, and I stood up on my tiptoes and we met in the middle. And it was perfect.

El día más desperdiciado es uno sin reír. NICOLAS CHAMFORT, ESCRITOR

Hay momentos en los que desearía poder hacer retroceder el reloj y quitar toda la tristeza, pero tengo la sensación de que si lo hiciera, la alegría se habría ido también. NICHOLAS SPARKS, ESCRITOR

One thing you'll say for skeletons, they'll always give you a smile.

You ought to live your life with such freedom and joy that uptight Christians will doubt your salvation.

If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship.

I find myself laughing a lot. Every time I remember that I'm forgiven and loved (that I have unlimited free sins and blank checks), I get the giggles. In fact, Christians are the only people on earth who have something significant to laugh about.

Whenever a new Christian comes into the church, I wince a bit, because I'm afraid that they will get the "religion disease," that the "church virus" will kill off the joy and freedom Jesus purchased on the cross to give them.

I can think of hardly anything that will kill your joy and freedom more than wearing a mask geared to get others to accept you because you are acting like them.

Stop shooting for happiness. You are aiming too low.

When you focus on being a happy and motivated person, that is who you will be.

As J.D. Salinger's character Seymour says in Franny and Zooey, "This happiness is strong stuff!" Happiness is the strongest stuff in the world. It is more energizing than a cup of hot espresso on a cold morning. It is more mind-expanding than a dose of acid. It is more intoxicating than a glass of champagne under the stars.

What we are engaged in creating is the opportunity for people to participate in the transformation of people's lives and of life itself. This context of transformation is a context of freedom and opportunity, of empowerment and human joy, of contribution and of participation. Participation in this transformation is, for me, the fullest expression of being. ~ Werner Erhard

We move through the world in a narrow groove, preoccupied with the petty things we see and hear, brooding over our prejudices, passing by the joys of life without even knowing that we have missed anything. Never for a moment do we taste the heady wine of freedom. We are as truly imprisoned as if we lay at the bottom of a dungeon, heaped with chains.

Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness. The world holds promise.

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

This life is full of trials and tribulations, so you have to capture humor whenever and wherever you can find it.

From a quality-of-life perspective, psychologists have found that the people who have the most flow in their lives are the happiest people on earth.

If we are hunting the highest version of ourselves, then we need to turn work into play and not the other way round.

This isn't just your mind paying more attention—suddenly your entire body is paying attention. When this happens, it's outside our conscious capabilities. There are no words. Our language becomes that of the river. All the features of the river speak to you and you to them through motion. There is tension, threat, there is joy and release, and overall, a deep, deep sense of flow. You are literally part of the flow of the world.

he discovered that the happiest people on earth, the ones who felt their lives had the most meaning, were those who had the most peak experiences.

When deeply religious subjects view sacred iconography or reflect on their notion of God, brain scans reveal hyperactivity in the caudate nucleus, a part of the pleasure system that correlates with feelings of joy, love, and serenity. But Lindstrom and Calvert found that this same brain region lights up when subjects view images associated with strong brands like Ferrari or Apple.