Joy Quotes

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  We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

  Maya Angelou

  Happiness, Laughter, Air

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• Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Gateways, Given

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• In dire times you can lose joy, but you can't lose hope. Hope is your guide.

  Paulo Coelho

  Guides, Loses

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 14, 2014

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• Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.

  Thomas Merton

  Journey, Differences, Looks

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, New Directions Publishing

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• The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Facts, Surprise

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.80, Penguin

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• Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hands, Trying, Achieve

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• The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

  Robert Barron

  Alive

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• Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.

  Barbara Johnson

  Love, Change, God

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.123, Zondervan

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• Confidence brings joy when we let God be God.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Letting Go

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

  Oswald Chambers

  Doe, Happens, Depends

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.216, Discovery House

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• Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.

  R. C. Sproul

  Giving, Sin, Pleasure

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• Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

  Henri Nouwen

  Happiness, Opportunity, True Joy

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• Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

  Sam Storms

  Suffering, Absence, Presence Of God

  Sam Storms (2014). “Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Enjoying God”, p.27, Tyndale House

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• Energy is eternal delight.

  William Blake

  Philosophy, Medicine, Energy

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'The voice of the Devil'

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• To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.

  John Templeton

  Giving, Spiritual Happiness, Spiritual Wealth

  John Templeton (1998). “The Humble Approach: Scientists Discover God”, p.122, Templeton Foundation Press

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• Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Gratitude, Prayer, Heart

  "My Life for the Poor". Book by Mother Teresa, 1985.

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• Where our work is, there let our joy be.

  Tertullian

  Inspirational, Christian, Work

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• When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Integrity, Moving

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.106, Lulu.com

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• Love yourself and feel worth it.  Attend to your joy!

  Prentice Mulford

  Love You, Feels, Worth It

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• Joy is not in things; it is in us.

  Richard Wagner

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Joy makes the longest journey too short.

  John Wooden

  Journey, Too Short

  John Wooden (2005). “Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion”, p.22, McGraw Hill Professional

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• When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

  Maya Angelou

  Happiness, Laughter, Blessing

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• For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Happiness, Spring, Flower

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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  Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "3 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Mood in 2 Minutes" by Daniela Tempesta, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2013.

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