Joy

"We have joy for the assurance of the promise."

"Freedom, joy or bliss doesn't come from the situation that we think we should be, but it derives from the one that we are already in."

"Happiness is a state of bliss."

"Never envy others. Be happy and love your work."

"Joy is God’s presence in our lives."

"The greatest life is to live for your dreams."

"Live a simple life, doing what you love."

"You can only conquer hate with love."

"Enjoy the sacred existence."

"Never accept what you don’t like to do."

"What you have made me see,' answered the Lady, 'is as plain as the sky, but I never saw it before. Yet is has happened every day. One goes into the forest to pick food and already the thought of one fruit rather than another has grown up in one’s mind. Then, may it be, one finds a different fruit and not the fruit one thought of. One joy was expected and another is given. But this I had never noticed before–that the very moment of the finding there is in the mind a kind of thrusting back, or setting aside. The picture of the fruit you have not found is still, for a moment, before you. And if you wished–if it were possible to wish–you could keep it there. You could send your soul after the good you had expected, instead of turning it to the good you had got. You could refuse the real good; you could make the real fruit taste insipid by thinking of the other."

"Gratitude gives infinite fullness of life."

"We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it."

"The greatest life is to live your greatest dream."

"The sacredness of existence is spiritual."

"Those small moments of pleasure men get from sin, from defying God, are perhaps grace - His final gift still to those who hard-heartedly choose to deny Him. Godless men may blatantly enjoy offending God not because they are free-spirited, but on the whole because He moves them to enjoy it. Sin is, in a sense, still touching God: for a strike involves a touch. Perhaps this is His divine kindness. Faithful men find everlasting fulfillment in His good company; but godless men who strike at the Author of Joy, who are completely ignorant of the greater, for them - and by God's love for His enemies - there is yet this small recoil known as 'pleasure' before the fall."

"The fear of any adventure is the root of unfilled life."

"A friend loves at all times."

"Be glad while you have breath."

"In life we meet people and they come and go. But, only God will remain the same. Despite what others think, God's love is eternal. No matter who abandons you, God will never leave or forsake you."