Quotes About Joy

Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration

Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.

Moment after moment, everyone comes out from nothingness. This is the true joy of life.

Actually we do not have any particular name for our practice; when we practice zazen we just practice it, and whether we find joy in our practice or not, we just do it.

In Hinayana Buddhism, practice is classified in four ways. The best way is just to do it without having any joy in it, not even spiritual joy. This way is just to do it, forgetting your physical and mental feeling, forgetting all about yourself in your practice.

Another mistake will be to practice for the sake of the joy you find in it. Actually, when your practice is involved in a feeling of joy, it is not in very good shape either. Of course this is not poor practice, but compared to the true practice it is not so good.

There is no easy way to be a teacher or a disciple, although it must be the greatest joy in this life.

And you will learn that sometimes pain can do what even joy cannot, such as exposing the vanity of earth's trifles and filling your heart with longing for the peace of heaven.

Joy was not the raw material of humor . . . The dark source was sorrow.

Be Like the crayon...... Blunt,sharp,Long or Short...... Always add colours to others lives

Disguise is what enhances the experience of a BLESSING!!!!

Reminiscing success gives more pleasure than the moment itself!!!!

Life essentially seeks out balance.I have found that it is in the habit of trading one sorrow for one joy until one cancels out the other.

I'm presently peeing from the delight from seeing you again).

I am not suggesting that you devote your life to being a missionary. You are entitled to your share of love and joy and leisure and pure happiness. But within the warm periphery of your life, there should be room for passionate involvement. As the Italian poet Antonio Porchia put it: "In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing." Racial

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Dance like there is nobody watching. Sing like there is nobody listening. Live like there is no tommorow.

Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to discover that you are exposed to being hurt.

I want a big church wedding.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love which she had lost and still secretly mourned; from anguished joy over the pale, luminous love which drew her to the farthest boundaries of life on this earth. Through the great darkness that would come, she saw the gleam of another, gentler sun, and she sensed the fragrance of the herbs in the garden at world's end.

Joys come from simple and natural things; mist over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water. Even rain and wind and stormy clouds bring joy.

Ours was a sense of golden leisure that comes only in the spring, after months of grayness and cold.

When you have a child, you have to put things aside, though. You have to live for them, if not for yourself. I was aware of this. I knowed that I could not let myself die inside, so I struggled through and made a way for myself. Most important, I tried to find a way to get joy into my life. I made a way for the possibility of joy. I looked for it anywhere I could find it. I got up early and stepped out onto the porch to see day come in.