“God bless the person who brings a smile to your face, laughter into your life and joy in your heart.
Keep this person in your prayers.”
Source: Enrich The World With Your Presence : HA's Original Quotes, Volume 01
“Joy returns us to everything that is good and beautiful and worth fighting for. In joy, we see even darkness with new eyes.”
Source: See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
“I believe laboring in joy is the meaning of life.”
Source: See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
“Humans as a collective, have chosen to live from the mind and accept the stories of the mind to be real; therefore, we see much chaos and confusion around us. In our confusion, we continue to strive for money, power, and possessions. In our striving, we become blind to our natural self which is unconditional love, joy, peace and harmony. Everything that is other than our natural self becomes stress.”
Source: Twelve Steps to Inner Peace
“The joy of living is a sensual art.”
“Joy is a good state to be in. But it is not a life target to be joyful. It is not an aim. It does not exist in the end.It exists now.”
Source: A Lean Mind: Managing the Mind Process to Reach Emotional Balance
“The fullness of joy is found in JESUS.”
“The true challenge of charity is not in the gifting of your trash but of your treasure, not your worst but your best.”
“There is a rhythm to moving through the world alone.
You discover what you can and cannot live without, the simple necessities and small joys that define a life. Not food, not shelter, not the basic things a body needs—those are, for her, a luxury—but the things that keep you sane. That bring you joy. That make life bearable.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Death is great.
We are his completely
with laughing eyes.
When we feel ourselves immersed in life,
he dares to weep
immersed in us.
(Der Tod ist groß.
Wir sind die Seinen
lachenden Munds.
Wenn wir uns mitten im Leben meinen,
wagt er zu weinen
mitten in uns.)”
Source: The Book of Images