Quotes About Joy

It's damaging to build organizations around repetitive faceless work that brings no connection and no joy. As

His only solace and support was in the thought of that other man who had also tasted fear and trembling. And then there was joy in the thought that he was not alone.

The labor we delight in physics pain.

And jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops...

There is a fierce joy to letting loose, to cutting yourself free from all the countless mundane threads of restraint that fix like you in your place, that tighten so gradually day by day that you do not even realize how bowed you are until you're quit of them.

Although Madeleine's happiness was palatable, Jack's was even more

Is there such a thing as being too happy?

By the time I got to the bottom, I understood what Guthrie ment when he shouted LIBERO! It was a celebration of being alive.

I'm New- New? How blessed, he said. There's nothing in this whole wide world that is better than a new person!

Zola smills, smuggles, what is that word? What is it, that word for the happy teeth??

I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.

But then: a pink nose tiny black paws and blinking sleepy eyes a small black fur ball not a BIG fat fur ball a kitten stumbling out of a basket and wobbling over to me and crawling up on my lap and licking my pajamas and I forgot that I hate cats as it crawled up onto my chest and purrrrrred and I was smiiiiiling all over the place.

Memory is merciful, Joanna, more so than man. It fades past pain, yet holds bright the colors in recalled joy.

All of us sing more from sorrow than from joy. It is tragedy that leaves a mark on the mind and calls for the tribute of a song. Happiness is its own gift, and needs no other. The Songcatchers

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

These four qualities are among the most beautiful and powerful states of consciousness we can experience. Together they are called in Pali, the language spoken by the Buddha, the brahma-viharas. Brahma means "heavenly." Vihara means "abode" or "home." By practicing these meditations, we establish love (Pali, metta), compassion (karuna), sympathetic joy (mudita), and equanimity (upekkha) as our home.

While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.

Wholehearted acceptance is a basic element of love, starting with love for ourselves, and a gateway to joy. Through the practices of loving kindness and self-compassion, we can learn to love our flawed and imperfect selves. And in those moments of vulnerability, we open our hearts to connect with each other, as well. We are not perfect, but we are enough.

As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American.

The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.

By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we have yet imagined.

Wholehearted acceptance is a basic element of love, starting with love for ourselves, and a gateway to joy.

It is a great happiness to be able to give.

May you live with ease, May you be happy, May you be free from pain.