#joy

And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot briskly and my arms to pump up and down like pistons, but I force myself to stroll past the stalls and pavement cafes. To enjoy just being somewhere, rather than rushing from somewhere, to somewhere. Inhaling deep lungfuls of air, instead of my usual shallow breaths. I take a moment to just stop and look around me. And smile to myself. For the first time in a long time, I can, quite literally, smell the coffee. ↗

— Alexandra Potter

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Be careful with too much joy, it can make you numb in life. ↗

— Toba Beta

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When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

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No more quickly can a person rob you of your joy and peace than when that individual succeeds at making you feel like you're less than worthy of God as compared to his/her own self. The old adage "You're on your way to hell, and I'm on my way to heaven" spoken or implied to another, is the most predominantly effective way to make someone feel better about himself; and he doesn't even have to prove he's better in this life on earth because now he can just say "Wait 'til I'm looking down at you while you're in hell!" But don't be robbed of your joy and peace, individuals or groups of people like that don't know where God is; He is a whisper-distance away from you, is all. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

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The true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition aiming to achieve your bliss. ↗

— Steven Redhead

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Intuitive responses are responses which originate from joy. ↗

— Sylvia Clare

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Success is realising the true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition, aiming to achieve your bliss. ↗

— Steven Redhead

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Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit. ↗

— Horace

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Joy is found in the simple and ordinary things of life: the smile of a newborn baby, the kiss from a sweet new puppy, and the warm sunshine on a spring day. ↗

— Marie Cornelio

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As a young man, he was already rather pompous and full of himself, concerned with what he would write and with his early (and, later, perennial) hatred of Ireland and the Irish. When he had still written only a few poems, he asked his brother Stanislaus: “Don’t you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do? I mean that I am trying in my poems to give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread of daily life into something that has a permanent artistic life of its own…for their mental, moral, and spiritual uplift.” When he was older his comparisons may have been less eucharistic and more modest, but he was always convinced of the extreme importance of his work, even before it existed. ↗

— Javier Marías

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