Joy Quotes - Page 134

Be someone who lives with joy, with purpose, as your own light brightly shines. Be, in every moment, the special someone you are truly meant to be.

What I feel best about is that while I enjoy what I have and don't want to lose it, I also don't need it.

Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their being. But there is no need! This smallness is your own imposition upon your freedom, upon your unlimited possibilities, upon your unlimited potential.

Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you vegetate.

Here, start living moment to moment totally and intensely, joyfully and playfully — and you will see that nothing goes out of control; that your intelligence becomes sharper; that you become younger; that your love becomes deeper. And when you go out into the world, wherever you go, spread life, playfulness, joy, as far away as possible — to every nook and corner of the earth.

Meditate, become more aware and then you will see: choices disappear, a choicelessness arises. And it is such a tremendous joy to have a choiceless spontaneity. It is such a freedom. Choice is such a burden.

Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.

When we recognize how precious and truly glorious we are, then we become humbled by that and recognize everyone's true spiritual identity. And then our greatest joy is in sharing.

I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy seems to be a part of an unconditional wish to live, not holding back because life may not meet our preferences and expectations. Joy seems to be a function of the willingness to accept the whole, and to show up to meet with whatever is there. It has a kind of invincibility that attachment to any particular outcome would deny us.

We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy.

you will I trust find heaviness may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit, but I am indeed touched by the joys. This book is an ode to such joys, a digest of my collections from various sources.

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty

I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.

Christianity spreads through the joy of disciples who know that they are loved and saved.

The cross of Christ, embraced with love, never brings sadness with it, but joy, the joy of being saved and of doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.

Do not be afraid of what God asks of you! It is worth saying 'yes' to God. In him we find joy.

A Christian is never bored or sad. Rather, the one who loves Christ is full of joy and radiates joy.

Let us draw from the crib the joy and deep peace that Jesus comes to bring to the world.

The Church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you.

If we act like children of God, knowing that he loves us, our lives will be made new, filled with serenity and joy.

In the face of life’s difficulties, let us ask the Lord for the strength to remain joyful witnesses to our faith.

Do not be afraid to say “yes” to Jesus, to find your joy in doing his will...

If only everyone could experience the joy of being Christian, being loved by God Who gave His Son for us!

Rediscover the joy of believing.