Quotes About Joy

Joy = Love - Fear

Think of your emotions as messages that give you the freedom, rather than the obligation, to respond. Fear protects. Regret teaches. Sadness releases. Joy uplifts. Empathy unites. Emotions

Exception Question: "When was the last time you saw a little bit of the miracle, even just for a short time?

When was the last time you saw a little bit of the miracle, even just for a short time?

Because when a customer says thanks, they make you happy, but they make themselves even happier.

If I could sum up what the Bible teaches about giving in one statement, it would be this: Generous living produces emotional happiness.

Love was the early Christians' marketing plan and their business card was joy.

Help your customer lighten up, let go, kick back, and save perfection for a rare picture day.

Innovation dances to the sweet sound of a banjo. Banjo behavior makes people want to jump up and join in.

And this is one of the final things I learn about love: it's found in its purest form, on this imperfect earth, between mothers and young children, because there's nothing they want except to make each other happy.

Who am I to say that small joys are less valuable than a passion which shatters your life?

But when I see Sudha, her face bright with a simple, generous joy, the walls I'd set up so carefully collapse around me like a house of cards. Inside my heart it feels like a wet, new rain. In spite of all my insecurities, in spite of the oceans that'll be between us soon and the men that are between us already, I can never stop loving Sudha. It's my habit, and it's my fate.

She put on some music. Drum and flute, I think. She played it soft, because it was dreadfully late, a time when all good men and women, or at least the practical ones, had gone to bed. Then she danced for me.

Ram: monarch, father, warrior, husband. The beloved who abandoned me when I needed him most. My greatest joy and my greatest despair.

The dream comes heralding joy. I welcome the dream. The dream comes heralding sorrow. I welcome the dream. The dream is a mirror showing me my beauty. I bless the dream. The dream is a mirror showing me my ugliness. I bless the dream. My life is nothing but a dream From which I will wake into death, which is nothing but a dream of life.

He who binds to himself a Joy Doth the wingèd life destroy; But he who kisses the Joy as it flies Lives in Eternity's sunrise.

When you are resolving your mind, Do not hanker for the higher perceptions. There is the danger of being carried away by the maras of joy and pride. Son, rest in the state free from hope. Do you understand this, monk from Ü?*

Through their kisses and caresses they experienced a joy and wonder the equal of which has never been known or heard of. But I shall be silent...; for the rarest and most delectable pleasures are those which are hinted at, but never told.

Every day is a careful balance fought between the despondency that threatens to swamp me and the incredible joy of living.

El dolor de la vida supera a la alegría hasta tal punto que la alegría deja de existir.

Mi familia me ha procurado una alegría insuperable, y debo deciros, hijos míos, que ninguno de vosotros me ha causado ni un minuto de angustia, salvo por razones de salud [...] Cuando erais muy pequeños me procuraba un gran deleite jugar con vosotros, y me inspira cierta pena que esa época haya desaparecido para siempre.

The playwright Rose Franken said, "Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better....

The only way to BE happy is to GIVE happy.