Quotes About Joy

Ele nos diz o que devemos fazer e nós encontramos nossa felicidade em fazê-lo. Não encontraremos a felicidade em nenhum outro lugar. Não a encontraremos fazendo apenas o que queremos fazer e não fazendo o que não queremos fazer. Essa é a ideia popular do que é a liberdade, mas isso não funciona. A liberdade reside no cumprimento das regras. A alegria também está lá.

Deus nunca nos decepcionará. Ele nos ama e tem apenas um propósito para nós: a santidade, que no reino dele equivale à alegria.

Elisabeth Elliot

This is one of the magnificent paradoxes of the cross: You bring to the cross your weakness and you receive God's strength. You bring Him your sins and you receive His righteousness. You bring Him your sorrows and you receive His joy.

If God loves me, He´ll make me happy". Well, yes and no. Happy isn´t the word, really. It´s joy, a far better thing. Not a sentiment, not mere "feeling good", but something that can never be taken away.

It is very important that you do only what you love to do. You may be poor, you may go hungry, you may live in a shabby place, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days, you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do.

People make one happy, not houses.

Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.

Good weather will do this to people, bond them in their gratefulness.

There I was, waiting, afraid I'd never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same.

What if you determined to fin one thing every day that you -... I know. Count your blessings. Remind yourself every night of every good thing that happened to you that day. No. I'm not talking about things that happen to you. I'm talking about purposefully doing one thing that brings you happiness every single day, in a very conscious way. .......think of it more fluidly-as a philosophy that you exercise daily. And days turn into years. And then years turn into a lifetime.

I used to make a basket of my hands to hold a feeling of joy that came upon me, then flatten my hands against my chest as if to make it part of me. Not understanding that it already was.

I would try to find joy despite the necessary work of grieving, and I knew full well that work was exactly the right word to describe it. It was John's life that was over, not mine.

One thing about doing this kind of work, you develop a keen appreciation for the fact that you can walk. And see the sky. And feel the air on your face. And that you can check high and low and no, nothing in your body is hurting, not one thing. I

Japanese tea ceremony; a way of honoring oneself by putting another's needs first, the joy that could be found in intimate service...A conversation we'd had one night on the way home from a movie. I remember that night he'd put toothpaste on my brush before his own, then bowed, I smiled, but I'd understood too that such small gifts were one seed that blossomed in two hearts.

luminous in their joy. There are photos of

we) laughed. It was so good to laugh. I felt as though I too were reentering my legitimate self.

just think that we need to collect these joy berries wherever we find them

hope you are rich in love, now and forever….

I'd learned enough about grieving to know that other ways of feeling would come back soon enough. But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.

This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.

specific miracle

she allows herself to use it in between loads of laundry so she'll be happy about doing the laundry.