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Quotes About Joy

A basic law: The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Start looking for joy and you'll find it.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Love Your Life And The LIfe Will Love You Back
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
~ Norman Vincent Peale
When we become a Sabbath people, we give one of the most compelling witnesses to the world that we worship a God who desires our collective joy and good. We give concrete expression to an authentic faith that is working to deflate the anxious and destructive pride that supposes we have to 'do it all' by ourselves and through our own effort.
~ Norman Wirzba
The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside it, because the only genuine joy you can have is in those rare moments when you feel that although we may know in part, as Paul says, we are also a part of what we know.
~ Northrop Frye
Kad god se nasmiješiš, radost se oko tebe širi poput kolobara u bari, i kad god si tužan, nitko nigdje ne može biti stvarno sretan. A isto ti je tako i sa znanjem, jer kad god nau?iš nešto novo, ?itav svijet postaje mnogo bogatiji.
~ Norton Juster
Why not take a few pounds of 'happys'?" advised the salesman. "They're much more practical—and very useful for Happy Birthday, Happy New Year, happy days, and happy-go-lucky.
~ Norton Juster
She wore life as a rose in her bosom.
~ O Henry
God would make is happy, but He can only make us happy by making us holy...Sin is the parent of all misery; holiness is the root of all happiness.
~ Octavius Winslow
I will greet this day with love in my heart.
~ Og Mandino
Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.
~ Og Mandino
And so long as I can laugh never will I be poor.
~ Og Mandino
So long as I have something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for, I shall be happy.
~ Og Mandino
To have a happy family...is to enjoy an earlier heaven.
~ Og Mandino
The Scroll Marked VII I will laugh at the world.
~ Og Mandino
exultation.
~ Og Mandino
So age succeeds age, and dream succeeds dream, and of the joy of the dreamer no man knoweth but he who dreameth. Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
~ Olive Schreiner
Come lieta appare la terra a chi nuota se Poseidone infranta gli abbia la nave urtata dal vento e dall'onde furiose, e pochi sfuggirono al mare nuotando e toccaron la riva, e molta e densa salsedine incrosta la pelle, e scampati da morte a terra vengon allegri: similmente apparve alla donna caro il marito.
~ Omero
Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The best of times is now.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
~ Oprah Winfrey
What I know for sure is that every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and step out and dance—to live free of regret and filled with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand. You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self-doubt.
~ Oprah Winfrey