Joy Quotes
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge - a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.
The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be.
At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.
One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.
Bless the cup that is about to overflow, that the water may flow golden out of it, and carry everywhere the reflection of thy bliss!
Just as I have often been told of people who have been able to continue one and the same dream over three and more successive nights: facts which clearly show that our innermost being, our common foundation, experiences dreams with profound pleasure and joyful necessity.
But what is it that constrains the individual to fear his neighbor, to think and act like a member of a herd, and to have no joy in himself? Modesty, perhaps, in a few rare cases.
Transform Beethoven's 'Hymn to Joy' into a painting; let your imagination conceive the multitudes bowing to the dust, awestruck-then you will approach the Dionysian.
I invite you to immerse yourself in the joy of the Gospel and nurture a love that can light up your vocation and your mission.
Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.
Instead of imposing new obligations, (Christians) should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet.
Joy adapts and changes, but it always endures, even as a flicker of light born of our personal certainty that, when everything is said and done, we are infinitely loved.
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