Joy Quotes - Page 30

• Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Positive, Happiness

  1928 Point Counter Point, ch.30.

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• May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.

  Carol Emshwiller

  Real, Self, Saying Yes

  Carol Emshwiller (2013). “Carmen Dog”, p.78, Small Beer Press

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• Trust your Heart.  Value its intuition.  Choose to let go of fear, and to open to the true and you will awaken to the freedom, clarity and joy of Being

  Mooji

  Letting Go, Heart, Intuition

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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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• 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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• The artesian well of joy never runs dry. We clog it with our thoughts.

  Don Blanding

  Running, Dry, Wells

  Don Blanding (1956). “Joy is an inside job”

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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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• 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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• the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christmas, Famous Inspirational, Giving

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “Somehow not only for Christmas”

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• The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

  Eva Hoffman

  Perception, Form, Lucidity

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• Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love Is, Suffering, Convince

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 27, 2014

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• There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sweet, Pain, Real

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1384, Dell

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• To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before

  Rollo May

  Love, Life, Disappointment

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World And Love, Sorrow, Busy

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• A hidden Bliss is at the root of things.
  A mute Delight regards Time's countless works:
  To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room,
  To house God's joy in self our souls were born.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Time, Self, Roots

  Sri Aurobindo (1994). “Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series”, p.14, Lotus Press

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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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• The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .

  Marianne Williamson

  Art, Integrity, Creativity

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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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• 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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• You are free to think thoughts of worry or joy, and whatever you choose will attract the same kind back to you. Worry attracts worry. Joy attracts joy.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Positive Thinking, Worry, Kind

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• You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Happiness, People, Giving

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Donald Beattie, Delayna Beattie (2001). “Library of Piano Works, Vol 2”, p.7, Alfred Music Publishing

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• Don't ever believe that you are going to be peaceful-life is not like that. When you are changing all the time, you've got to continue to keep adjusting to change, which means that you are going to be constantly facing new obstacles. That's the joy of living. And once you are involved in the process of becoming, there is no stopping. You're doomed! You're gone! But what a fantastic journey! Every day is new. Every flower is new. Every face is new. Everything in the world is new, every morning of your life. Stop seeing it as a drag!

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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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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• 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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• 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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