Joy

"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

"You live one time on earth. Live each day with thankful heart."

"He’s not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander’s delusion—prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded."

"One should never go dancing with a broken foot, but one should with a broken heart."

"Give when you have nothing to give. That is when it will bring you the most joy."

"I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this."

"The prayer that is heard is not of many words...but of Oneness"

"Hmm. I think love is about loving all things, to treat each and every thing and every one as a sovereign being that’s free to make its own choices."

"We must be so careful that we do not refuse the cross that the Lord has given us to carry. Let us remember that our present sufferings serve to prepare us for entering into the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ."

"The real you is not you, the real you is what is within you. What is behind your joy or your melancholy. What gives you the reason to ponder. What moves or stops you. What makes you you is you."

"I work with great gladness for what I want."

"All joy lies in the present moment. The journey of life and prosperity are made of the present moment."

"The greatest joy in traveling is seeing where you end up."

"If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal"

"Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture."

"There is no joy greater than the triumph of living."

"Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it's your responsibility to love it, or change it."

"My love for you is passionate and strong."

"Erica's despair has nothing to do with lack of motherly love. She loved Maja fiercely and sincerely. At the same time she felt as if she'd been invaded by an alien parasite that sucked all joy out of her and forced her into a shadow existence that had nothing in common with the life she'd lived before."

"Fast rather than slow, more rather than less--this flashy "development" is linked directly to society's impending collapse. It has only served to separate man from nature. Humanity must stop indulging the desire for material possessions and personal gain and move instead toward spiritual awareness. Agriculture must change from large mechanical operations to small farms attached only to life itself. Material life and diet should be given a simple place. If this is done, work becomes pleasant, and spiritual breathing space becomes plentiful."