#jo

A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #journey #life #motivational #success

Every day is a journey filled with twists and turns. Every day, if you smile, you will feel alive, my son. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#journey #love #inspirational

She wasn’t just a faithful friend, she was the closest thing to heaven I allowed myself to know. Through her I received joy in my heart and began to love others. ↗

— Jennifer Skiff

#faithfulness #friendship #heaven #joy #joyfulness

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#freedom #job #students #freedom

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing. ↗

— David Baldacci

#change #civilization #detachment #journalism #mankind

If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship. ↗

— Steve Brown

#joy #laughter #religion #worship #freedom

Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life. It Really Is. ↗

— Jonathan Lockwood Huie

#happiness #inspirational #joy #inspirational

Even if your body isn't healthy, your soul overcomes that, it doesn't even care, it worships anyway, it's joyful anyway. That's what God wants to give you in your life. ↗

— Lacey Mosley

#flyleaf #health #inspirational #jesus #joy

Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#inspiration #joy #inspirational

When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us? ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#joy #inspirational