Quotes About Joy

The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human consciousness. The feelings of joy and love are intrinsically connected to that recognition.

all the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind.

So next time somebody says, "Sorry to have kept you waiting," you can reply, "That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing here enjoying myself — in joy in my self." These are just a few of the habitual

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. Even when the sky is heavily overcast, the sun hasn't disappeared. It's still there on the other side of the clouds.

De hecho, en el momento en que dejas de juzgar y aceptas lo que es, eres libre de la mente. Has creado espacio para el amor, para la alegría, para la paz.

That is the joy of Being," I said. "You can only feel it when you get out of your head. Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

True salvation is fulfillment, peace, life in all its fullness. It is to be who you are, to feel within you the good that has no opposite, the joy of Being that depends on nothing outside itself.

Some people never forget the first time they disidentified from their thoughts and thus briefly experienced the shift in identity from being the content of their mind to being the awareness in the background. For others it happens in such a subtle way they hardly notice it, or they just notice an influx of joy or inner peace without knowing the reason.

When you say, I enjoy doing this or that, it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.

Nothing can give you joy. Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being. It is an essential part of the inner state of peace, the state that has been called the peace of God. It is your natural state, not something that you need to work hard for or struggle to attain.

The happiness that is derived from some secondary source is never very deep. It is only a pale reflection of the joy of Being, the vibrant peace that you find within as you enter the state of nonresistance. Being takes you beyond the polar opposites of the mind and frees you from dependency on form. Even if everything were to collapse and crumble all around you, you would still feel a deep inner core of

On this side of the cross misery persists, but the scales are tipped in favor of joy.

Estamos completamente imersos neste mundo que é o dos nossos sofrimentos, das nossas felicidades e dos nossos amores. Não sentir é evitar o sofrimento mas também o regozijo. Quanto mais aptos estamos para a felicidade mais aptos estamos para a infelicidade.

smiles are the foundation of beauty.

Y la sonrisa es la base de la belleza.

the bridesmaid's hand in his, Hazel and I think it would be ripping to make it a double wedding. The

Sometimes, when the music calls, you just gotta dance.

He is happy whom the Muses love. For though a man has sorrow and grief in his soul, yet when the servant of the Muses sings, at once he forgets his dark thoughts and remembers not his troubles. Such

I am not a good man. I am at the present, as a matter of record, rejoicing in one of the most evil reputations in all of England. But don't pity me, Regina, for I swear it is well deserved. But I am very wealthy, and I am a duke, a duke of all things. And you are a commoner. Moreover, much to my joy, you are a commoner with no connections at all. No resources. No protector. You are my natural meat. My natural prey. I want you.

The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.

To suffer and to be happy although suffering, to have one's feet on the earth, to walk on the dirty and rough paths of this earth and yet to be enthroned with Christ at the Father's right hand, to laugh and cry with the children of this world and ceaselessly sing the praises of God with the choirs of angels—this is the life of the Christian until the morning of eternity breaks forth.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.

Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there.