Joy Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Skills, Empowerment, Lines

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• Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Friendship, Relationship, Trials

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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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• 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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• We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

  Andre Gide

  Mind, Needs, Emotion

  "Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality". Book by André Gide, edited by Justin O'Brien, 1964.

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• Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

  Aeschylus

  Tears, Stealing

  Aeschylus (2014). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides”, p.7, Everyman's Library

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• To me, it's our job as artists. You must bring joy.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Jobs, Artist

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• The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Poverty, Rich, Harvest

  Octave Mirbeau (1900). “A Chambermaid's Diary”

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• There is more healing joy in five minutes of true worship than in five nights of revelry.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Healing, Night, Worship

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• Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.

  Jack Kornfield

  Hate

  Jack Kornfield (2014). “A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times”, p.97, Sounds True

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• No matter what comes your way, don't lose your joy.

  Joel Osteen

  Matter, Way, Loses

  Joel Osteen (2013). “Daily Readings from Every Day a Friday: 90 Devotions to Be Happier 7 Days a Week”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• Work, look for peace and calm in work: You will find it nowhere else. Pleasures flit by -- they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Long, Looks, Calm

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• In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Perception, Youth

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

  M. Scott Peck

  Constant, Grows

  M. Scott Peck (2012). “The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Heart, Air

  Nick Cave (2007). “The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013”, p.23, Penguin UK

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• Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Harmony, Heal, Whole

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• When you're feeling joyful, you are giving joy, and you'll receive back joyful experiences, joyful situations, and joyful people, wherever you go. From the smallest experience of your favorite song playing on the radio to bigger experiences of receiving a pay raise -- all of the circumstances you experiences are the law of attraction responding to your feeling of joy.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Song, Law Of Attraction

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Memories, Flower

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.27

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• Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

  Thomas Brooks

  Humility, Men, Grace

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.461

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• I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity, to name a few.

  Brené Brown

  Creativity, Black And White, Love Is

  "Living Brave". Interview with Mary Sykes Wylie, Rich Simon, www.psychotherapynetworker.org. September, 2016.

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• The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.

  George Muller

  Spiritual, Prayer, Giving

  George Muller (2013). “Answers to Prayer From George Müller's Narratives (Start Classics)”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

  Enrico Fermi

  People, Hearing, Underestimate

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• Joy attracts more joy. Happiness attracts more happiness. Peace attracts more peace. GRATITUDE attracts more GRATITUDE. Kindness attracts more kindness. Love attracts more love.
  Your job is an inside one. To change your world, all you have to do is change the way you feel inside. How easy is that?

  Rhonda Byrne

  Love, Inspirational, Change

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “Secret Daily Teachings”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

  John Ortberg

  Everyday, Contentment, Everyday Life

  John Ortberg (2014). “Soul Keeping Study Guide: Caring for the Most Important Part of You”, p.54, Harper Collins

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