Joy Quotes - Page 25

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

For me it’s always just been about experiencing the things I love and documenting them. I have gotten a lot of joy out of what I do, and I feel lucky to be able to spread that joy.

We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.

When you squeeze an orange, you'll always get orange juice to come out. What comes out is what's inside. The same logic applies to you: when someone squeezes you, puts pressure on you, or says something unflattering or critical, and out of you comes anger, hatred, bitterness, tension, depression, or anxiety, that is what's inside. If love and joy are what you want to give and receive, change your life by changing what's inside

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

How very beautiful and consoling our faith is! For the little work we do here on earth it promises in return all the joys of assured happiness.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming.

There's going to be some joyful lifting for us if you will in terms of some of the tasks we have to do.

Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.

My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.

God's peace is joy resting. His joy is peace dancing.

Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.’ And I base my beliefs on the information and the process that we call science. It fills me with joy to make discoveries every day of things I’ve never seen before. It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.

Joy is more infectious than leprosy.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.

The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.

Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.