Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.
Joy is the echo of God's life within us.
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity beyond all poisons of this world.
Where there is love, there is joy.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Joy is increased by spreading it to others.
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew.
What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy.
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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