Joy Quotes - Page 58

Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed out inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure.

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of Christ has shown through their lives.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.

Don't take life too seriously! Learn to enjoy yourself and be grateful for all you have.

No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.

I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.

I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community.

You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.

Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy.

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

Christlikeness is a journey, not a destination. The joy is in the journey.

This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe.

Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.

Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.

If we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other, our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the principles of unshaken confidence in each other, our joy will be full.

I don't want to find the secret. I'm afraid all the joy will go out of it if I find the secret.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.