Joy Quotes - Page 27

• To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Sacrifice, Self, True Joy

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• Joy is the settled assurance that God is in control of all the details of my life, the quiet confidence that ultimately everything is going to be all right, and the determined choice to praise God in all things.

  Kay Warren

  Choices, Details, Determined

  FaceBook post by Kay Warren from Mar 13, 2012

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• Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God.

  Kay Warren

  Spiritual, Conviction, Produce

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• Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Oxygen, Fleeting, Rising

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• Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fun, Writing, Serious Business

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• Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

  John Suckling

  Happiness, Firsts, Misery

  Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.150

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• Joy is the true gift of Christmas, and we can communicate this joy simply: with a smile, a kind gesture, a little help, forgiveness. And the joy we give will certainly come back to us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Giving, Gestures, Littles

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• Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence of resourcefulness ; that you can deal with whatever is available around you and not feel poverty stricken.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Essence, Generosity, Poverty

  Chogyam Trungpa (2003). “Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness”, p.41, Shambhala Publications

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• Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Light, Hot And Cold

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life”, p.35, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Flower, Dust

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• Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

  Brené Brown

  Missing, Risk, Busy

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.125, Penguin

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• Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she would launch into a celebratory dance that ended with her racing around the room, always clockwise, and faster and faster, as if her joy could not be possibly contained. Even as a young boy I knew that hardly any creature could express joy so vividly as a dog.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Family, Dog, Boys

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1998). “Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs”, Broadway Books

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• The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Love, Wise, Appreciation

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• Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.

  Melody Beattie

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Needs

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• Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Summer, Dream, Lying

  Samuel Laman Blanchard, “Hidden Joys”

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• Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.

  Robert Jordan

  Responsibility, Men, Dust

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• I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

  Christopher Nolan

  Book, Reading, Knowing

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• You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

  Mark Twain

  Looks, Alive, World

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.125, Penguin

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• Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

  Billy Graham

  Pain, Sunshine, Dark

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.79, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

  C. S. Lewis

  Evil, Free Will, Goodness

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Space, Silence

  C. S. Lewis, Aurand Harris (1985). “The Magician's Nephew”, p.21, Dramatic Publishing

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• Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Pain, Writing, Needs

  "The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 2005.

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• My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
  Did all within this circle move!

  Edmund Waller

  Grief, Moving, Circles

  Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.54

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• You can't imagine the joy I feel when I hear that something I've said or done or written has helped others to regain their sense of dignity, to motivate them to develop their unique
  potential, to encourage them to reach out to others in love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Unique, Done, Dignity

  Interview with Veronica M. Hay, A Magazine of People and Possibilities, www.peopleandpossibilities.com. 1998.

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• I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Heart, People, Want

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know for Sure”, p.95, Pan Macmillan

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