#joy

The Catholic wisdom of the people... provides reasons for joy and humor even in the midst of a very hard life. ↗

— The Catholic Church

#humor #joy #piety #life

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to slide across the finish line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, and shouting GERONIMO!!! ↗

— Bill McKenna

#life

Quassù, la sensazione che la natura ha una sua presenza psichica è fortissima. A volte, quando tutto imbacuccato contro il freddo mi fermo ad osservare, seduto su un grotto, il primo raggio di sole che accende le vette dei ghiacciai e lentamente solleva il velo di oscurità, facendo emergere catene e catene di altre montagne dal fondo lattiginoso delle valli, un’aria di immensa gioia pervade il mondo ed io stesso mi ci sento avvolto, assieme agli alberi, gli uccelli, le formiche: sempre la stessa vita in tante diverse, magnifiche forme. ↗

— Tiziano Terzani

#life #nature #life

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#enjoyment #gloom #life #life

Character represent life and life represents our character. ↗

— Lucy Dawn

#insporational #joy #life #peace #life

True inner joy is self-created. It does not depend on outer circumstances. A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#life

don't ride for the ribbon, but ride for your own joy to life. ↗

— Gajoch

#life #ribbon #ride #life

Realize that the tests you endure will mold your character, persona, and will. The more heartbreak and pain you will feel with your trials in life, the greater your joy and glory will be once you've overcome. Not IF, not POSSIBLY, not MAYBE, but ONCE you have overcome. ↗

— J. Junior Reynolds II

#glory #heartbreak #joy #life #life-lessons

It is when we develop both our inner man and woman that we find a new harmony and wholeness within ourselves. Healing means to develop and integrate our inner man and woman so that love can flow between them. To rediscover our own inner source of love, we need to embrace both the male and female sides within ourselves. When these two sides are developed and integrated, a new spark of love, joy, harmony, creativity and wholeness arises within us. Awareness is an inner harmony between opposite poles and tendencies. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#harmony #healing #joy #love #wholeness

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy. ↗

— George MacDonald

#music #sorrow #truth #life