Joy

"The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience."

"When you are grateful,' Brother Steindl-Rast explained, 'you are not fearful, and when you are not fearful, you are not violent. When you are grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not out of a sense of scarcity, and you are willing to share. If you are grateful, you are enjoying the differences between people and respectful to all people. The grateful world is a world of joyful people. Grateful people are joyful people. A grateful world is a happy world."

"We have a choice. We can be jaded by what we’ve lost, or joyous over what that thing had accomplished while we had it."

"The things which give joy to you may also give you horror!"

"Empowering beliefs are ideas that launch us forward and help us to become the person we want to be. Empowering beliefs are freeing, encouraging, and inclusive; they nurture and uplift. When we find ourselves harboring a limiting belief, we need to replace it with one that cultivates joy."

"The joy is in the journey."

"How beautiful it is to feel that what you cannot describe?"

"Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not."

"HAPPINESS is based on externals; it fluctuates up and down every day. JOY, on the other hand, is internal; it can be cultivated and nurtured. We can be joyful even in the midst of a chaotic, unpredictable world."

"The things that people were the most grateful for were the ordinary things in life. The sound of your spouse’s laugh, the smell of morning coffee, the echo of children playing in the yard. The little things. In waiting for the big moments—the vacations, the retirements, the birthdays—we risk missing the experiences of life most worthy of celebrating."

"Michael Ende + Petra Hermans There is joy of life. Amen November 20, 2016"

"You bless my heart the only way you can bless the world as well ... Just by existing you make me the happiest woman alive."

"I realized during some of the darkest moments of my life, that the most beautiful and precious happiness in the world is the Joy of Giving."

"The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives."

"The everlasting God has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity the cross that He now presents to you as a gift from His inmost heart. This cross He now sends you He has considered with His all-knowing eyes, understood with His divine mind, tested with His wise justice, warmed with loving arms and weighed with His own hands to see that it be not one inch too large and not one ounce too heavy for you. He has blessed it with His holy Name, anointed it with His consolation, taken one last glance at you and your courage, and then sent it to you from heaven, a special greeting from God to you, an alms of the all-merciful love of God."

"Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoever gives with joy gives more. The best way to show our gratitude to God and to people is to accept with joy."

"The number one joy indicator, the one thing that will predict whether someone feels joy in their life or not, is the practice of gratitude."

"Happiness is an undercurrent of sensitivity and leads a surreptitious life: it is an internal eventuality. We can feel it in stillness and it stands the test of time. Joy is an eruption of cheerful moments and we want to express it: it is an external eventuality. We might shout it out, as it conveys a dynamic of fleeting instants. Joy gives voice to “en-joy-ment”. ("The grass was greener over there")"

"Joy comes when you turn it over to God to deal with. This is when you will feel the true release from it's weight."

"There goes a lot of pain in raising children. But the pain is equally or overtly compensated by the joy of parenthood."