“nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.”
“It s easy to be heavy; hard to be light.”
“Naniamma glanced up, and her eyes met Maya s. The joy Maya saw there made her heart swell. Zara gently lifted out another picture, a shot of the entire family sitting in the garden. In their faces Maya saw herself.”
“When I met them sick in the hospital, it was too late. But out there in the world, I seized on every bit of joy I could scrape out of the pan. These men had lived on the margins so long that coming into the light to ask for help scared them to death. I had to walk them through the steps, keeping things fun.”
“When we dwell on God s provision, His promises, His presence, authentic joy is the natural overflow, which inspires us to praise and worship Him through our hardships. In so doing, we can experience His peace through any circumstance.”
“suffering leads to wisdom & wisdom leads to joy...hence suffering leads to joy!” Excerpt From: Ujjwal Arora. “Zen, Coffee & Potpourri”. Apple Books.”
“Each and every small task I am doing during my day with sheer joy is helping me to manifest unlimited abundance in my life.”
“The swell of tears in my eyes starts again, but this is too happy a moment for them to fall. They hang there, bright and sparkling in the twilight, as my smirk melts to a smile.”
“From its very beginning Christianity has been the proclamation of joy, of the only possible joy on earth. It rendered impossible all joy we usually think of as possible. But within this impossibility, at the very bottom of this darkness, it announced and conveyed a new all.-embracing joy, and with this joy it transformed the End into a Beginning. Without the proclamation of this joy Christianity is incomprehensible. It is only as joy that the Church was victorious in the world, and it lost the world when it lost that joy, and ceased to be a credible witness to it. Of all accusations against Christians, the most terrible one was uttered by Nietzsche when he said that Christians had no joy.”
“To love poetry is to experience pure joy.”
“The purpose of life is celebration; not negation.”
“i keep reminding myself that suffering has nothing to do with some divine plan. instead, the divine is trying to help us through it.”
“When we are full of Life and Joy we become free from the thoughts about judgment from others.”
“Learn to spread joy and happiness like Spring Blossoms.”
“When you do something you weren’t supposed to, it gives a thrill. You feel more alive when you’re scared than when you’re happy.”
“Decide today that every little and big task you will do in your life everyday, will be with utter joy and happiness. See how your life transforms magically.”
“Don t hamper others happiness just because you are not happy.”