Joyfulness

Comparison is the thief of Joy.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Life is an opportunity given to satisfy the hunger and thirst of the soul.

Wanna be always happy? Always carry some chocolate with you. ;)

Life is like a taste of honey, sour, bitter, spice, salty. Hope you will taste the honey one day.......SOON !

Fortune is where the love is.

Does the clown ever cry ? Yes, he does. Alone but !

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

You will hardly find one, among the profounder sort of scientific minds, without a peculiar religious feeling of his own. His/her religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings, is an utterly insignificant reflection.

Science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith.

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.

Some girls are extremely beautiful in nature.

Some people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

“The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.”

God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.

All the way to heaven is heaven.

Happiness is not what makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy.

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Music...will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive within you.

When you have songs moving through your thoughts, you dance through life.

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

Are brains real? I thought it was a legend.

Don't put your happiness on hold by giving it conditions such as: 'I'll be happy when...' Choose to feel positive now, and enjoy the journey.

As i walked down the avenue, the late afternoon sun was turning the lovely and dying sycamore leaves into fragments of brilliant stained glass, and i said to myself, "This alone is worth the price of admission to our broken and glorious world.

When men stop believing in God,
it isn't that they then believe in nothing:
they believe in everything.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.

Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood... How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts-- physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on-- remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kindles joy in the heart of one who receives.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy!

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.

I find ecstasy in living -- the mere sense of living is joy enough.

O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

I am the laughter of the new-born child
On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.

Praise is the attitude of the highest gratitude.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Earth is crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God.

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

We are all participants in the marvelous.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. -

Don't ever let your mind keep you from having a good time.

All is play. God is just playing everywhere. All are bubbles-small bubbles going down and coming up to the surface.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

The best things in life are ridiculous.

If you have love, you can live on bread crumbs. Without love, caviar will poison you.

We make very little progress when we strive to conquer baser instincts in a good mood. However, vast strides are possible when we are miserable and work with ourselves to replace our misery with joy and understanding.

It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Identify what it is that makes you ecstatically happy, then steal it. Not the object, but the happiness. No one is the poorer when you have learned to call forth the happiness that resides within you.

Joy and woe are woven fine. ~Auguries of Innocence~

I am every age I've ever been.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises.

We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.

Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States. We think here that a man must be great, that he must be notorious; that he must be extremely wealthy, or that his name must be upon the putrid lips of rumor. It is all a mistake. It is not necessary to be rich or to be great, or to be powerful, to be happy. The happy man is the successful man.
Happiness is the legal tender of the soul.
Joy is wealth.

There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.

Our calling is where our deepest gladness and the world's hunger meet.

Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

...he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always served beauty, and beauty is delight in form, and form is the key to organizing life, since no living thing can exist without it, so that every work of art, including tragedy, expresses the joy of existence.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Whatever suffering there is in this world,
all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.

And whatever joy there is in this world,
all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone.

Kindness
is giving others happiness.
Compassion
is removing others' bitterness.
Joy
is freeing others from suffering.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

I slept and dreamed that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted, and behold, service was joy.

My heart is singing this morning.  A miracle has happened!  The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy.