Joy

"If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585)."

"If the good so loved and desired do appear possible and feasible in the attaining, then it exciteth the passion of hope, which is a compound of desire and expectation : when we look upon it as requiring our endeavour to attain it, and as it is to be had in a prescribed way, then it provokes the passion of courage or boldness, and concludes in resolution. Lastly, If this good be apprehended as preset, then ti provoketh to delight or joy. If the thing itself be present, the jy is greatest. If but the idea of it, either through the remainder or memory of the good that is past, or through the fore-apprehension of that which we expect, yet even this also exciteth our joy. And this joy is the perfection of all the rest of the affections, when it is raised on the full fruition of the good itself(575)."

"Let's live in a joy."

"By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy."

"Amidst the dim & desolate backdrop that was my world, a seed of hope bloomed into a garden of joyous wonder."

"We are our own greatest teachers. One way to follow our daily bliss is to let our inner guidance system to imagine and acknowledge, all our blessings. This determines the criteria of our day, which is JOY. It puts us in tune with the positive constructive energy and raises our vibration. Making a conscious decision to creating our day and enjoy feeling good takes some good practice but the end result is worthwhile"

"I'll put her in charge of the puppies. I've twelve this week that need tending. How does that suit you"Leeli's mouth hung open. She tried to say something but instead crumpled to the floor. She had fainted with joy."

"... suffice to say, joy is where you find it- usually on the shelf right next to sadness."

"The exhilarating alignment of the heavens was sufficiently rare that she recognized her moment of joy, thus making the joy that much more potent."

"My life is in full tilt, and I reach forward with joy."

"Some people reflect light Some deflect it You by some miracle Seem to collect it"

"The sacred heart is filled with joy."

"Love frees us of all pain, or of any restraint. Once a circle that ever widens without end. Various colors it shines in our lives to paint Excelsis, glorious manifestation to befriend."

"Joy being of God was a living thing, a fountain not a cistern, one of those divine things that are possessed only as they overflow and flow away, and not easily come by because it must break into human life through the hard crust of sin and contingency. Joy came now here, now there, was held and escaped."

"As much as what I can think of life, it is more of a poetic journey with emotions & experience packed up in the form of livelihood. When it starts, it brings confirmation of a new soul entering into the world. But when it ends, it takes away not just soul, but happiness of those related to that life. It’s in the middle of this journey that the best poems get their sequence of words."

"Joy is so deeply rooted in our souls that it is not tossed about by the waves of circumstance."

"Life can only be filled with joys as we make our egos small enough to accept the fact that joy comes to those in whom there is only room for it to spill over."

"Happiness lies within the heart."

"What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own."

"What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own."