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.
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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.
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Paris Talks
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Contribution #2207
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.
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What's God Got to Do with It?
by Tim Page
Published by Steerforth Press
, Hanover, New Hampshire
, 2005
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Contribution #2073
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.
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...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.
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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1466
Kindness
is giving others happiness.
Compassion
is removing others' bitterness.
Joy
is freeing others from suffering.
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Heart of a Buddha
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, 2003
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Contribution #1448
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
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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!
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For My Teacher
by Compiled by Suzanne Siegel Zenkel
Published by Peter Pauper Press, Inc
, White Plains, NY
, 1994
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Contribution #974
Pleasure
usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing.
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Contribution #398
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.
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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.
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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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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.
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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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.
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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.
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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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.
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What does joyfulness look like in a person?
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