“Like butter spread on bread, spread love, joy and laughter.”
“When soul radiates joy each and every moment, the purpose of life is already achieved!”
“The path ahead is wide open and you feel a sense of emptiness; in the moment, you realize your heart is empty and the one who can make it overflow with joy, never will.”
“The closer you come to your core, the greater is your joy.”
“What s wrong with Disneyland? It brings joy to millions and tutors children about the corporate, overbranded world they ve been born into.”
“You know the laughter that proceeds from the heart by the way it sounds, and how it makes you feel.”
“Enter Jerusalem with joy.”
“Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.”
“You never abandon a gift that made you cry with joy. Never!”
“Don t whine, whistle.”
“You were never meant to live your life based on survival-based stories. You are an amazing being who can create your life and live from that unshakable place of strength within. You are in this world to step out of those false stories and empower others to do the same so they can experience the simple joy of being alive—right now, in this very body.”
“It is more blissful to give than to receive.”
“Joy is freedom and freedom is joy.”
“It is this, the spreading of joy, all that is good, which makes the Platinum Rule different.”
“The lesson isn t that we should dance in spite of the suffering. It s that we should dance ourselves right through the suffering. We have to court that shit, get up close to it, extend a hand and make a dance partner out of it, twirling it around in the front lawn until we are both so dizzy that we can t tell anymore where the suffering ends and where the joy begins. Because what naturally follows, to anyone paying attention to the fact that each breath is a miracle, is the realization that the next one isn t guaranteed. And we can be grateful for the one we re in or we can panic about the one that we hope is next to come, but we can t do both, not really, not well.”
“To my mind, joy is a constitutive part of the emotional rhetoric and comportment of those against whom the present swells at an annihilating pace. With joy, we breach the haze of suffering that denies us creativity and literature. Joy is art is an ethics of resistance.”
“Joy is born in service, misery is born in selfishness.”