Quotes About Joy

I have enough in this moment, and I love wanting more from a place of enough. Wanting is only exhausting when we believe we can't have what we want or that if we don't have it, we can't be happy.

Instead of trying to "have" fun, focus on "being" fun. I

But happiness is something you can create or access. Being kind to yourself and having compassion for yourself can connect you to yourself and the happiness that is already residing within you. You cannot go on a path of self-criticism and expect to find joy at the end.

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window—or break down a door.

High school basically continued with bouts of her getting drunk and then stopping for a day. There was not one major moment or birthday celebration during which she could remain sober. I learned how to plan my joy. I would front-load my birthdays with breakfast activities or plan to be with her for only the beginning of an event. Then I would go off to be with friends and know that that would be the last I would see of my mother's real facial expressions.

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.

We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will,whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations.

That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.

The joy of a small town lies in its unchanging nature.

The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers. These four questions will join any program you've got and enhance it. Any religion you have—they'll enhance it. If you have no religion, they will bring you joy. And they'll burn up anything that isn't true for you. They'll burn through to the reality that has always been waiting.

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn't believe them, I didn't suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. That joy is in everyone, always.

Peace and joy naturally, inevitably, and irreversibly make their way into every corner of your mind, into every relationship and experience. The process is so subtle that you may not even have any conscious awareness of it. You may only know that you used to hurt and now you don't.

Quisiera hoy ser feliz de buena gana

We may assume God gave us music just to make us happy, not holy; he actually gave us music to make us happy and holy.

Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.

Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.

For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived

los nietos son el postre de la vida

There are so many beautiful girls around that after a while you start looking for someone who can make you laugh

I don't know. There are so many beautiful girls around, that after a while you start looking for someone, who can make you laugh.

the day you stopped appreciating the sublimely silly things in life was the day you became a dried-up old turd.

I think music can elevate the human spirit.

Abbey hopped off my handlebars

The dog was having a grand time. That's the thing about being a Labrador Retriever, you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind cluttered by contemplation and never at all by somber worry. Every day was a romp. What else could there possibly be to life? Eating was a thrill, pissing was a treat, shitting was a joy. And licking your own balls? Bliss!