Joy Quotes

A well-lived day is medicine unto itself.

Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.

Your attitude determines how you experience the world.

Whatever you appreciate and give thanks for will increase in your life.

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life.

A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventually, your mind and heart encyst about it, and what occurs is a pearl of the soul.

We are all joined in a circle of stories.

Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive.

I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.

The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth.

Most of us are “living the dream” living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.

Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.

You do know I’m not psychic, right?’Dash looked down at her. ‘Joy...you do know that normal people don’t see ghosts, right?

A woman could do a lot of crazy things for a pair of fine-looking dimples.

When we encourage othersWith no personal motives, We raise high, very high, Humanity's progress-standard.

Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.

The phrase "having it all" has little to do with having what we want.

Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.

Sorry, kid. Whedon got it wrong. Stakes don't kill vampires, they just give us heartburn.

Just living is not always living. Look at your life. Can you call it a blessing? Can you call it a gift? A present of existence? Would you want this life to be given to you again and again?

I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

Some Buddhists have criticized secular Buddhism because they think it waters down Buddhism. I like to think of it as adding Buddhist flavoring to the sparkling water of secularism.

You have constellationsgrowing under your skin.starlight in the blood spilledwhen they stole your feathers

Some like to sleep. Some like to read late into the night without catching a wink. In a world of dreamers, both are essential.

We live in a society of {more, faster, and extra.} So we feel the need to respond {more, faster, and extra.} Such a useless exercise. So much joy can be found in slowing down.

Happiness is absolutely a feeling and a state of well-being, but the key to happiness is understanding that it is created through action.

Contentment is the sibling of happiness

Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakesAre initial draftsAnd not the final version.

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

I could hear my abandoned dreams making a racket in my soul.

Don't make peace with the sin in your life.

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.

Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's defensiveness is the result of selfishness or apathy, when in fact it is much more likely the result of systematic and intensive social conditioning.

Out there is South Dakota, " Kitch had said, "Matt said they treated Fern like some kind of animal.

Like us, animals feel love, joy, fear and pain, but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to speak on their behalf ensuring their well-being and lives are respected and protected.

We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we’re completely beside ourselves.

The sticky marital truths: - Friendship lasts longer than romance. - Romance adds icing to the friendship cake. - There are times when neither romance nor friendship keeps a couple strong.

I love you but I got to love me more.

In the darkness and the snow, the street is emptyand it is just the night, the ice and me.

I believe sarcasm is the passive form of rudeness and should not be tolerated in the Body of Christ.

Most of us knew things that we didn't even want to confess to ourselves, so we took those secrets with us like condoms, stuffed in wallets, that would never be used.

Rename your “To-Do” list to your “Opportunities” list. Each day is a treasure chest filled with limitless opportunities

So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me.

We have hands

Children live life as a controlled experiment.