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Quotes About Joy

With my hands open and my eyes open I just keep hoping that your heart opens. It's not as easy as willing it all to be right Gotta be more than hope that it's right. I wanna hear you laugh like you really mean it Collapse into me tired with joy.
~ Snow Patrol
daca iubirea a pus stapanire pe om, atunci el o transpune in tot: in munca, in viata, in relatiile cu alti oameni, intr-o carte, transmitand in toate o asemenea energie si bucurie, ca ea devine atat motorul unui singur om, cat si al intregii lumi care-l inconjoara.
~ Sofia Tolstoy
There are so many ways of making the approach to meditation as joyful as possible. You can find the music that most exalts you and use it to open your heart and mind. You can collect pieces of poetry, or quotations of lines of teachings that over the years have moved you, and keep them always at hand to elevate your spirit.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Shantideva said: Whatever joy there is in this world All comes from desiring others to be happy, And whatever suffering there is in this world All comes from desiring myself to be happy.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
What a beautiful and what a healing mystery it is that from contemplating, continually and fearlessly, the truth of change and impermanence, we come slowly to find ourselves face to face, in gratitude and joy, with the truth of the changeless, with the truth of the deathless, unending nature of mind!
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
William Blake:   He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise.7
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, The buddhas work for the benefit of others. Just look at the difference between them. If I do not exchange my happiness For the suffering of others, I shall not attain the state of buddhahood And even in samsara I shall have no real joy.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
William Blake: He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise.7
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Offer up every joy, be awake at all moments to the news that is always arriving out of silence.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
William Blake: He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
I'm like my mother, she thought, I search my joy for signs of sorrow ahead.
~ Soheir Khashoggi
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
~ Sol Hurok
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.
~ Sol Hurok
All who heard the magical voice of that poor, ragged woman, felt lighter, happier and calmer than they had felt for a long time. Soon everyone had closed their eyes, the better just to listen. The songs went on and on, winding their way down into the people's minds and hearts, down into the very root of their beings, down to where they were all small and often afraid. It lifted them then and brought them out to the glorious sunlight where they felt happy and safe.
~ Solala Towler
My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid.
~ Soleil Moon Frye
Suffering teaches joy.
~ Sonia Rumzi
Let me wear the day Well so when it reaches you You will enjoy it.
~ Sonia Sanchez
How can you know love, and lose it, and go on living without it, and not feel the loss forever?" "You can't," Feather answered. "You feel the loss forever. But you put it in a corner of yourself, and bit by bit some of your sorrow changes into joy. And that's how you go on living.
~ Sonya Hartnett
Bad people aren't happy. . . Wickedness often wears fancy clothes, dines on rich food, has money, controls armies, rules nations. . . but it never seems to know joy. Peace, laughter, trust, ease: these things flee from wickedness like sparrows from the shadow of a hawk.
~ Sonya Hartnett
Solo tu decides ser feliz.
~ Sophie Jordan
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
~ Sophocles
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
~ Sophocles
Please, dear God of happiness, show the radiance of your spectrum to our world, which here means to forget everything.
~ Sorin Cerin
What can we do without pain in front of happiness?
~ Sorin Cerin