Joy proverbs

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◆ They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

- Tom Bodett99

◆ The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

- E.E. Cummings99

◆ Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

- Thích Nh?t H?nh99

◆ When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

- Rumi99

◆ Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

- Seán O'Casey99

◆ I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

- Anne Frank99

◆ Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. Woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which she is bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love a taking of man within her, an act of birth and rebirth, of child rearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to be. But for woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment man rests inside of her.

- Ana?s Nin99

◆ Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

- Thích Nh?t H?nh99

◆ To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

- Mark Twain99

◆ Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.

- Fred Rogers99

◆ Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin99

◆ Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

- Tony DeLiso99

◆ A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

- John Keats99

◆ I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don't want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.

- Shauna Niequist99

◆ According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. (quoted by Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the Butterfly)

- Deepak Chopra99