Joy

"Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil."

"Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows in the gesture, notwithstanding any sadness the divers may actually feel. When someone jumps into the water fully clothed, it is another thing entirely: the only person who jumps into the water fully clothed is a person trying to drown; and a person trying to drown does not dive headfirst; he lets himself fall: thus speaks the immemorial language of gestures."

"The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living."

"The most beautiful is to see the joy in your eyes."

"Something in the air this morning made me feel like flying. . . "Spring Flight"

"The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that little incandescence you see in people when the charm of a thing strikes them, or the humor of it. 'The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart.' That's a fact."

"A person can drop dead even while singing. But that's no reason to stop singing."

"As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor."

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet."

"These are the hands of Rachel Joy Scott and one day, will touch millions of people's hearts."

"Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?"

"There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful... We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength."

"She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing."

"She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself."

"I trust all joy"

"We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives."

"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love."

"There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away."

"Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others"

"The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it."