Joy

"Misery loves company. For the sake of your sanity, avoid entertaining her."

"People often tell themselves lies, in order to reach what they consider acceptance in difficult situations. In reality, they fool themselves into believing they are healed, until that lie is corrected by time, further information or their own personal growth. True healing comes when we learn to not avoid truth, but face it. Only then will we be set free."

"Today is a new chapter in the story of your life. While you're holding the pen, what will you write? Now, is your time to shine! Will you continue holding the pen? Or, will you express yourself from deep within?"

"We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul."

"May you have a joyful and grateful spirit."

"Sometimes we learn the lessons of life through pain, melancholy and the vicissitude of life and sometimes we learn the lessons of life through joy and comfort. Whatever the case may be, the most important thing is the great lesson we learn out of the lessons life teaches us. If you fail to learn the lessons greatly, life will teach you a great lesson."

"I live each day with joyful hopes."

"Every joy that life gives must be earned ere it be secured; and how hardly earned, those only know who have wrestled for great prizes. The heart’s blood must gem with red beads the brow of the combatant, before the wreath of victory rustles over it."

"So, you know that feeling just before you're gonna laugh? That thing when you get all bubbled up and there's this beautiful sort of... it's like a bubble of laughter but it hasn't come out yet? I said, that's the feeling I would say that... that's what God feel like. It's a feeling of joy and love and well-being."

"If you experience sadness without craving that the sadness go away, you continue to feel sadness, but you do not suffer from it. There can actually be richness in the sadness. If you experience joy without craving that the joy linger and intensify, you continue to feel joy without losing your peace of mind."

"Our power of being happy lies a good deal in ourselves, I believe."

"Love is the joy of the soul."

"You are the greatest wife of all times and I love you so much more’ said my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita"

"Be educated. Only true education and wisdom can lighten the burdens of your life and fill it with joy and happiness."

"Life is not a competition. There is enough work for everybody. Find your passion and fulfill it."

"If I have nothing but life and books, I have everything."

"Hope is joy."

"The bond of love is supernatural."

"Live a passionate life. Life can end any time, any day."

"An enemy sees his attackers laughing? It is better than all the insults. A man who laughs as he goes into battle is a man who has confidence, and a man with confidence is terrifying to an enemy. “For the whore!” I shouted."