C.F. Joyce Quotes

Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

Stop comparing yourself to other people; you are an original. We are all different and it's okay.

The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God’s eyes they do

Love is and has always been His idea. He came to love us and to teach us how to love. When we do this, life is exciting, beautiful and rewarding.

Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

God not only sees where you are, He sees where you can be.

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

Turn you situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime.

She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

Why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

Stop giving someone else the job of making you happy.

For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

It's not hard to make a space that looks good by itself. The trick is to craft a room that's even more attractive when it's occupied. That's when it becomes magical.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

God has uniquely gifted you to help someone. Be available as God opens doors for you to do so.

Life is too short to read a bad book.

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

People gain so much hope when they know they are not experiencing something alone.

Serving God doesn’t mean we’ll no longer have difficulties. We’re still on the battlefield, but we don’t have to fight alone.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

The great thing about an attitude is that it's yours and you can change it.

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

The more thankful you are, the happier you will be!

Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.

Your value should not be determined by how somebody else has treated you.

Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will always be in great supply!

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!

We cannot control what others do to us, but through God we can control the way we respond to them.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

The only way to break the chains of fear and doubt is to know in your heart that God loves you-no matter what.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.

We cannot stand through the storms of life based on someone else's faith. We must be fully assured in our own hearts and minds.