All Quotes By Tag: Joy
“Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!”
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“Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.”
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“How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow5 don’t let people tell you it cant be done6 make no excuses”
“Happiness isn’t the reward we retrieve after a long struggle. It arrives daily, in those clear moments when our hearts are tender, pricked by the embrace of a loved one, the beauty of a single flower, the majesty of the world in which we are central. Look over your shoulder at how far you’ve come and all the good things you’ve experienced and that is when you will see the smiling face of happiness.”
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“Now some of you will say that the two are one and the same – happiness and joy – but this is not so. Happiness is a feeling. Happiness is fleeting, dependent on the moment, the circumstances, even the weather. Joy is transcendent, enduring, and, in the biblical context, is not an emotion. Joy is an attitude of the heart. Joy brings us peace, a refuge in the midst of troubles. God gives us joy through His Spirit. But the enemy tries to steal your joy and give you temporary happiness instead. Now, is there anything wrong with being happy? Nee, but it cannot last. So, you may wonder why I bring up the difference between these two – it is simple really. […] marriage is sacred before the Lord, a decision for a lifetime, but too often I think young people look upon it as a source of happiness. Do not look at marriage this way. See it as a reservoir of joy, a deep, welling spring that endures the icy blast of temper, the bite of an angry word, the void of loneliness in a heart hungry for talk when there is no response. […] Seek joy in each other, not happiness.”
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“My mind to me a kingdom is,Such present joys therein I find,That it excels all other blissThat world affords or grows by kind.Though much I want which most would have,Yet still my mind forbids to crave.”
“Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living.”
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“Without struggle, success has no value.”
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“I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don’t normally get to go.”
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“I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table.” Macbeth”
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“It’s not strength, it’s PERCEPTION that makes you stronger. If you change how you SEE it, you’ll change how you FEEL about it.”
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“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.”
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“Imagination doesn’t always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.”
“The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.”
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“Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.”
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