Joy Quotes - Page 36

• Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is no more empty. That's why love gives such fullness, such deep contentment, such tremendously overflowing joy. Remain in love and let love be the door to the divine.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Men, Doors

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho (1984). “You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet: Initiation Talks Between Master and Disciple”, Osho International Foundation

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• To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a wordless state called meditation or a state of no-mind, satori, samadhi.

  Rajneesh

  Silence, Meditation, Mind

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• The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Diversity, Life Is, Absence

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.156

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• Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Gratitude, Problem, Accepting

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• In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Doors, Glimpse

  David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.11, Paulist Press

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• Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.

  Kent Nerburn

  Healing, Sadness, Remembrance

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life”, p.110, New World Library

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• Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness at another's happiness. Just as in the cultivation of compassion, we may feel the pain of others, so we may begin to feel their joy as well. And it doesn't stop there.

  Stephen Levine

  Gratitude, Pain, Compassion

  Stephen Levine (2009). “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last”, p.109, Harmony

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• Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

  Epicurus

  Wine, Order, Balance

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• A really spiritual person will live life as an art, will create a deep harmony between the body and the consciousness. And this is the greatest art there is. His life will be a joy to see. And he will be fragrant, for the sheer reason that there is no split in his being. The very unity makes him organic; the wound of division is healed.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Art, Live Life

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• People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise, and all the joys of heaven. But it is the same trick, the mind is again befooling you. This is not the way of the intelligent person, this is the way of the stupid.

  Rajneesh

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

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• When you have emptied all content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time you find yourself, because you are nothing but that pure space, that virgin space within you. Unburdened by anything, that contentless consciousness, that's what you are! Seeing it, realizing it, one is free. One is freedom, one is joy, one is bliss.

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Space, Finding Yourself

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• Yes, there truly is a joy to giving.

  Charles Bronfman

  Giving

  Charles Bronfman, Jeffrey R. Solomon (2009). “The Art of Giving: Where the Soul Meets a Business Plan”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Uplifting, Pain, Disappointment

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• We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.

  Stephen Brookfield

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

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• Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.

  Myron Tribus

  Teaching, Learning, Quality

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• To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.

  Lawrence Welk

  Use, Able, Talent

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts to do. There is a sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in all its parts-which the superficial man, who leaves his work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns work into art. The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

  William Matthews

  Art, Pride, Men

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• An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

  Vida Dutton Scudder

  Motivational, Self Control, Elements

  Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

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• One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

  Og Mandino

  Success, Achievement, Miracle

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.125, Bantam

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• Our goal should be to achieve joy

  Ana Castillo

  Goal, Achieve, Should

  Ana Castillo (1994). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”

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• You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Being Happy, Noses, Trails

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• Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Peace, People

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• In the broader sense, work is the means to achieve happiness, prosperity. and salvation. When work and duty and joy are commingled, then man is at his best.

  J. Richard Clarke

  Happiness, Mean, Men

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• Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too gay; Temper thy joy: this, too, shall pass away. Art thou in danger? Still let reason sway, And cling to hope: this, too, shall pass away. Tempted art thou? In all thine anguish lay One truth to heart: this, too, shall pass away. Do rays of loftier glory round thee play? Kinglike art thou? This, too, shall pass away! Whate'er thou art, wher'er thy footsteps stray, Heed these wise words: This, too, shall pass away.

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

  Wise, Art, Brother

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• Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.

  Edwin Markham

  Grief, Heart, Space

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