Joy

"You have to appreciate where you have come from to know who you are in the present and whom you would like to be in the future."

"Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness and the happiness of others."

"Totally present in this moment for you."

"Be thankful for a breath of fresh air to be alive and well. Allow love and happiness to penetrate throughout your mind and soul. Take time to relax and live in the moment, the now, the present. Enjoy today."

"The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win."

"Never surrender to you're passions. Dream and live to excess."

"You are the ruler of my heart. There is no measure greater than this."

"... but happiness is to joy as an electric light bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you're happy because of something, it's a condition whose existence depends on external things. Joy, on the other hand, has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart."

"Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure."

"Julia was as happy as Betsy was, almost. One nice thing about Julia was that she rejoiced in other people's luck."

"I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it."

"When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves."

"Happiness is wanting what you have."

"Huge difference between being happy at will, and chasing euphoric moments as an escape. One doesn't cost a dime, the other will tax your soul."

"To fall in love for any reason does cause fires of emotion. When we are in love, we ride on a positive energy as compared to not being in love. When we are love, we transcend conditional love to that of unconditional and we are now flowering in consciousness. Love is a very important element of consciousness as it becomes purer with Source union even as our consciousness is expanded further. Consciousness is love that is light."

"If you walk in joy, happiness is close behind."

"Joy weathers any storm: Happiness rides the waves."

"Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud."

"I'm not in pursuit of happiness, I'm happiness in pursuit; ready to happen everywhere I go."

"Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds will take their jollity. Up, up, fair bride, and call Thy stars from out their several boxes, take Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make Thyself a constellation of them all;And by their blazing signify That a great princess falls, but doth not die. Be thou a new star, that to us portends Ends of much wonder; and be thou those ends."