Joy

"there can be occasions when we suddenly and involuntarily find ourselves loving r=the natural world with a startling intensity, in a burst of emotion which we may not fully understand, and the only word that seems to me to be appropriate for this feeling is joy"

"Happiness is more of a necessity than a choice thus we must consider it a priority in everyday's life."

"Idolatry, like all sin, is devastating to the soul. It cuts us off from the comforts of grace, the peace of conscience, and the joy that is to be our strength."

"Joy come and go like pleasant breeze. It's the miseries that stick in you like thorns - until you realize that it's all your doing."

"He was familiar enough with pleasure to know it might become jaded or reluctant; but joy was literally foreign to him, a word he would never easily pronounce, an exhilaration that had some other reckless nationality. For this reason, Caro's wholeness in love, her happiness in it, made her exotic."

"Whatever situation you are in, you should find an opportunity to renew your strength in the Lord, so that your problems don’t affect your joy, your peace and rest."

"We owe it to the dead to dance on their graves."

"...she felt as if her entire body were glowing with the taste of sunlight, of wind blowing in wide spaces and trees reaching their burdened arms to boundless skies."

"She cries,I laugh,She becomes numb,I become filled with joy,She slowly crumbles,I feel on top of the world,Yet somehow in the end,Out of the ashes,She rose like a Phoenix,As if nothing had ever touched her"

"When someone loves you, a river of positive charges flow inside you to fill you with joy and bliss."

"We only feel joy when we love our precious life."

"At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats."

"It is clear we exist in an abundant living Universe that knows no restriction—only the impulse to eternally expand with no limits or boundaries, perpetually becoming more of what it is and can ever be—star-stuff . . . Life, pushing out by creating light and matter from within itself, shaping and giving form to itself, exquisitely clothing itself in an infinite and unique number of ways."

"Many people, who should have been rejoicing for what they've achieved, are rather regretting just because of one reason; they looked at what someone else was doing. Comparison eliminates contentment and then kills inner joy!"

"The only reason you continue to love someone who treats you poorly is because you don't value yourself enough."

"Please don't let the unhappiness you knew in the past keep you from accepting happiness now."

"Your first reaction to any attack should be joy in the Holy Ghost"

"Joy is the ultimate reward in life."

"Joy of harvest belongs only to those who endure the pain of sowing."

"When you allow God to be manifested through you, you will experience a great joy."