When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

You are free to think thoughts of worry or joy, and whatever you choose will attract the same kind back to you. Worry attracts worry. Joy attracts joy.

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life – to learn something is a joy to me.

You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches…Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.

We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens.

You cannot experience the fullness of your authentic self or life when you live to avoid hurt. You will never know the joy of love or the peaceful satisfaction of being loved if you hide from hurt.

Anticipate beauty. Believe in miracles. Count on grace. Decide on joy. Expect peace.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

Look back with joy. Look forward with hope. Be present with peace.

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.

Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

It’s good to be just plain happy, it’s a little better to know that you’re happy; but to understand that you’re happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

Without an awareness of our feelings we cannot experience compassion. How can we share the sufferings and the joys of others if we cannot experience our own?