Joy

"Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained."

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

"Comparison is the death of joy."

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."

"Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling."

"If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated."

"words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder."

"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."

"Pan, who and what art thou" he cried huskily."I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."

"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are."

"Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life."

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."

"Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place."

"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with."

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."

"Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living."

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."

"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."

"Without pain, how could we know joy' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate."