“Just as the triggers for depression are correct and present every day, so are triggers for joy.”
Source: LUPUS, YOU ODD UNNATURAL THING: a tale of auto-immunity
“While motherhood has been one of her greatest joys, she also wants to let the world in on how challenging it can be to juggle everything on her plate.”
“The world knows me as someone who puts so much time and hard work into my game and through it all I’ve realized you have to find the joys that make the journey worth it.”
“I'm someone who chronically and compulsively rehearses tragedy, assuming that I when will be prepared when it comes. Or that it might never come because I'm ready for it. After all, I did my part:I sacrificed joy in the moment of feeling it to forestall future pain.”
Source: Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
“Believe me, comparison sucks the creativity and joy right out of life.”
Source: Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
“[Russ Hildebrandt] 'I don't deserve joy!'
[Marion Hildebrandt] 'No one does. It's a gift from God.”
Source: Crossroads
“My takeaway from this is that no matter what I step into or what my day looks like, I can be joyful. Because I know my God is holy, I can publicly honor and praise Him as I celebrate each day.”
Source: Live
“You listening, Bog? Is a computer one of Your creatures?”
Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“The child must receive all things as gifts, because on his own he can do nothing. Yet the child is also himself a gift of incomparable beauty, a grace that takes the breath away. We come to Jesus then with the poverty and the dignity of children, and He meets us, on the feast of Christmas, in the same way. What cheer for the heart! The gears of the world grind on, the smokestacks belch, and politicians
speak, scientists distill medicines and poisons, producers produce, and consumers consume, but the true world is here, at the side of the Christ child, in stillness and joy.”
Source: Real Music: A Guide to the Timeless Hymns of the Church
“Imagine if the adult sections of all hospitals were filled with cheery pictures, illustrations, bright pops of colour – well, perhaps not the fluorescent variety that currently graces Burger King’s eating areas – but an equal measure of artistic and psychological research done into what makes humans happy and apply those images to hospitals.”
Source: LUPUS, YOU ODD UNNATURAL THING: a tale of auto-immunity