The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May.
John NewtonTags: happiness contentment joy
Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.
Alan CohenTags: work joy life-purpose
For most people there is a fascinating inconsistency in the position of St. Francis. He expressed in loftier and bolder language than any earthly thinker the conception that laughter is as divine as tears. He called his monks the mountebanks of God. He never forgot to take pleasure in a bird as it flashed past him, or a drop of water as it fell from his finger; he was perhaps the happiest of the sons of men. Yet this man undoubtedly founded his whole polity on the negation of what we think of the most imperious necessities; in his three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience he denied to himself, and those he loved most, property, love, and liberty. Why was it that the most large-hearted and poetic spirits in that age found their most congenial atmosphere in these awful renunciations? Why did he who loved where all men were blind, seek to blind himself where all men loved? Why was he a monk and not a troubadour? We have a suspicion that if these questions were answered we should suddenly find that much of the enigma of this sullen time of ours was answered also.
G.K. ChestertonTags: love faith joy hope saints
If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.
Matt D. MillerTags: inspirational consciousness truth happiness love empowerment passion inspiration spiritual joy uplifting empowering excitement spirituality encouragement attraction prosperity truths enjoyment vitality empower encouraging abundance universal-law universal-law-of-attraction
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
Thomas MannTags: happiness laughter soul sun joy sunshine
Funfunfunfunfun!
Tamora PierceA crust of bread and a corner to sleep in,
A minute to smile and an hour to weep in,
A pint of joy to a peck of trouble,
And never a laugh but the moans come double;
And that is life!
A crust and a corner that love makes precious,
With a smile to warm and the tears to refresh us;
And joy seems sweeter when cares come after,
And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter;
And that is life!
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
Oscar WildeTags: happiness beauty joy flowers
Surrender to your dreams and let them launch your tomorrow.
Lisa FantinoTags: inspiration dreams joy
True happiness is always self-forgetful: it loses itself in the object of its joy. As the joy of the Holy Ghost fills us, and we rejoice in God the Holy One, through our Lord Jesus Christ. [. . .]
Love and joy ever keep company. Love, denying and forgetting itself for the brethren and the lost, living in them, finds the joy of God. ‘The kingdom of God is joy in the Holy Ghost.
Tags: happiness joy andrew-murray holy-in-christ
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