Joy Quotes - Page 31

• One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true-the joy of anticipating is irrevocably yours. That way one can live many more than just one life.

  Maria von Trapp

  Way, Life Is, Human Life

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• ...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Stars, Sky, Forever

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• Happiness and joy comes to you when it moves through you. There is no other pathway--and that's the miracle. You will have a number of opportunities in the days just ahead to be a vehicle of happiness and joy for another. Step right into that. Be the source of that. As you bring others to a smile, so, too, will you bring yourself. The method is foolproof.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Opportunity, Numbers

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jan 27, 2015

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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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• The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.

  Bert Hellinger

  Goodness, Criteria, Distress

  Bert Hellinger, Gabriele Ten Hövel (1999). “Acknowledging what is: Conversations with Bert Hellinger”, p.162, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers

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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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• 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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• 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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• The greatest joy comes from giving and serving, so replace your habit of focusing exclusively on yourself and what's in it for you. When you make the shift to supporting others in your life, without expecting anything in return, you'll think less about what you want and find comfort and joy in the act of giving and serving.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Comfort And Joy, Giving

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 24, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When you're tempted to be upset, ask yourself 'Is this worth giving up my joy?'

  Joel Osteen

  Giving Up, Upset, Tempted

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• The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love Is, Essence, Feelings

  Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose, Reuben P. Bell (2003). “Divine Love and Wisdom”, p.68, The Swedenborg Foundation

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What are the proper grounds for joy? Is it circumstance which will determine the stature of my spirit? Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice - in the face of any event - for joy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Happy, Choices, Events

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• We laugh to survive. Then, with joy we thrive.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Laughing, Thrive

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