Deepest Joy Quotes

When I'm with people, I'm a spiritual teacher. That's the function, but it's not my identity. The moment I'm alone, my deepest joy is to benobody, to relinquish the function of a teacher. It's a temporary function. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Sometimes what we need from the Bible is not the fulfillment of our dream, but the swallowing up of our failed dream in the all-satisfying glory of Christ. We do not always know the path of deepest joy. ~ John Piper

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

I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy. ~ Seamus Heaney

Let us look around with a compassionate heart to feel and see the deepest joy of life. ~ Debasish Mridha

My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, sharing and loving in order to feel the deepest joy of life. ~ Debasish Mridha

Perfect resignation gives the deepest joy of all . Accept it as your sole resource ~ Anandamayi Ma

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee

If I spend my life preoccupied with me and my own happiness, I will live life missing the deepest joy that God has for me. When ~ Matthew Kelly

Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ. ~ Pope Benedict XVI

You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity. ~ Louis Pasteur

Start a new fashion, wear your heart on your sleeveSometimes you reach what's real just by making believeUnafraid, unashamedThere is joy to be claimed in this worldYou even might wind up being glad to be you. ~ Stephen Schwartz

So take a breath and find what is unsolved in your heart.
Breathe in patience, breathe in love.
Love yourself bountiful.
And send that love out to others.
When you send love out from the bountifulness of your own love, it reaches other people.
This love is the deepest power of prayer. ~ John O. Donohue

Every morning we begin our new life with new joy. So let it be beautiful. ~ Debasish Mridha

She could die for love of this speed, this surety in her bones. How had she been afraid of this body for so long? Even her soul felt looser. As if it had been locked up and buried and was only now starting to shake free. Not joy, perhaps not ever, but a glimmer of what she had been before grief had decimated her so thoroughly. Rowan ~ Sarah J. Maas

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment. ~ Winston Churchill

The girl laughed again. The joy of a caged bird was in her voice. Her eyes caught the melody and echoed it in radiance, then closed for a moment, as though to hide their secret. When they opened, the mist of a dream had passed across them. ~ Oscar Wilde

I love a Dustbuster. You go around, pick up little crumbs, and everything is nice again. ~ Joy Behar

My hope for all of us is that 'the miles we go before we sleep' will be filled with all the feelings that come from deep caring
delight , sadness, joy, wisdom
and that in all the endings of our life, we will be able to see the new beginnings. ~ Fred Rogers

I tried to scream like you once screamed God since I wanted to make the whole world faint but Harry Astley clapped his hand over my mouth O the sheer joy of feeling my teeth sink in. ~ Alasdair Gray

where the pleasure subsists in the simple fact that you are doing it, that you can do it, that the challenge you never set yourself before has presented itself whereat the joy of embracing it, meeting it and surmounting it is supreme. ~ G Fife

I'm learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude, and grace. I'm also learning that the uncomfortable and scary leaning requires both spirit and resilience. ~ Brene Brown

Birthday is a sacred-life celebration. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Walked the streets until midnight among the people of Paris gorging on joy & I felt stupid & inadequate in my unhappiness & it seemed very clear to me that loneliness is the worst thing in the world & people should ALWAYS be forgiven for all the compromises they make in love. ~ Steve Toltz

For me," he said. It came out as a cross between a choked growl and a whimpher. It was shocked, and it was possessive. Full of pain, and laced with joy. "You were made for me. ~ Jus Accardo

There are three absolute freedoms that we have that no one can take away; freedom to think, freedom to love and freedom to feel the joys of life. ~ Debasish Mridha

Ayame: "Yuki, let's deepen the bond between us brothers!"
Yuki: "Before you can do that I'll drown you in the deepest part of that lake."
Ayame: "As long as we spend time together."
Yuki: "On second thought, go drown yourself. ~ Natsuki Takaya

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by. ~ William C. Bryant

Happiness is the inner perception of calmness, tranquility and joy. ~ Debasish Mridha

I did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good songwriters, and they would be a joy to hang out with. ~ Benmont Tench

But surely liking the same things for dinner is one of the deepest and most lasting things you could possibly have in common with anyone,' argued Dr. Parnell. 'After all, the emotions of the heart are very transitory, or so I believe; I should think it makes one much happier to be well-fed than well-loved. ~ Barbara Pym

There were times he thought of his siblings and felt love sing from him like a shofar, rich with joy and agony and eternal recognition: those three made from the same star stuff as he, those he'd known from the beginning of the beginning. But when he was with them, the smallest infraction made him irreversibly resentful. ~ Chloe Benjamin

You do know I'm not psychic, right?'
Dash looked down at her. 'Joy...you do know that normal people don't see ghosts, right? ~ Amy Andrews

We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy. ~ Desmond Tutu

She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power. ~ A.B. Simpson

I had locked from him the deepest chambers of my fear, only to discover that he had his own key. ~ Richard Paul Evans

When you think of two things to say, pick your favorite and only say that, my mother suggested once, as a tip to polite social behavior, and the rule was later modified to one in three. ~ Karen Joy Fowler

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. ~ Booker T. Washington

Our God created us to find fulfillment and joy in doing His work, in serving others, in living with the compassion of Jesus in this world. ~ Darlene Zschech

nothing hurts worse or steals more joy than broken relationships. We can heal and hurt each other, and we do. ~ Jen Hatmaker