#joy

One bulb at a time. There was no other way to do it. No shortcuts--simply loving the slow process of planting. Loving the work as it unfolded. Loving an achievement that grew slowly and bloomed for only three weeks each year. ↗

— Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards

#consistency #effort #journey #joy #perseverance

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#god #joy #love

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it ↗

— Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#dolphin #happiness #joy #love #man

Besides, you know how I love the theater, and let's face it-a wedding is like a big show followed by a cast party. ↗

— Jennifer Allison

#wedding #love

No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy. We do not live alone - in our city, our nation, or our world. There is no dividing line between our prosperity and our neighbor's wretchedness. 'Love they neighbor' is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#love-thy-neighbor #service #love

The human heart operates from two premises: "I Am Responsible" and "Only Love Works. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#heart #joy #life #love #meditation

Intuition is a trust that if we follow our heart, if we follow our love, joy and truth, the Whole becomes enriched. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#intuition #joy #life #love #meditation

He advocated that all who follow Jesus are priests, not just the official clergy. Much of what he said made sense, as did his kind manner. But why was he here now? Had this persecuted recluse emerged just to speak to me? ↗

— David Holdsworth

#jesus-the-christ #joyfulness #justice #kindness #love-story

What makes a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? "Me Father is very fond of me! ↗

— John Ortberg Jr.

#god-s-love #joy #love

True happiness is always self-forgetful: it loses itself in the object of its joy. As the joy of the Holy Ghost fills us, and we rejoice in God the Holy One, through our Lord Jesus Christ. [. . .] Love and joy ever keep company. Love, denying and forgetting itself for the brethren and the lost, living in them, finds the joy of God. ‘The kingdom of God is joy in the Holy Ghost. ↗

— Andrew Murray

#happiness #holy-in-christ #joy #love