Joy Heart Quotes

May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy. ~ Gautama Buddha

And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don't let anyone steal your joy. ~ Jonathan Groff

But who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy ~ C.S. Lewis

I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy. ~ Oprah Winfrey

In the mind, we doubt and suspect, and we get a kind of pleasure, a kind of joy from that. But in the heart, we try to encompass the full world, and by loving the world, we get joy. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Opening to love will always involve risk,but a heart safe from pain is one also locked to joy. ~ John Mark Green

Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. To me it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy. ~ Goldie Hawn

Everyone wants to protect their heart, but without pain, one can never have joy. ~ Jaycee Ford

Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy. ~ Edwin Markham

Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room; it can take a while to even notice it's there. ~ Jonathan Carroll

Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back. ~ Anne Lamott

But that would put me on a path that would make me totally divergent from who I am. I don't have to go through the heartache many other people go through, of figuring out what makes them "wealthy." I know what brings me joy. ~ Ben Sollee

My life shines with God's radiant blessings when my heart is the color of joy ~ Thomas Kinkade

Just emotional? There's no such thing. Emotions are nothing without a corresponding physical response. Adrenaline-fueled joy, heart-thumping fear, gut-churning loss. ~ Leisa Rayven

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

I need to learn. Joy is at the heart of God's plan for human beings. The reason for this is worth pondering awhile: Joy is at the heart of God himself. We will never understand the significance of joy in human life until we understand its importance to God. I suspect that most of us seriously underestimate God's capacity for joy. ~ John Ortberg

The soul needs love more than the heart needs joy. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy. ~ Mother Teresa

The Gospel does not require anything good that man must furnish: not a good heart, not a good disposition, no improvement of his condition, no godliness, no love either of God or men ... ... .. It plants love into his heart and makes him capable of all good works. It demands nothing, but it gives all. Should not this fact make us leap for JOY? ~ C.F.W. Walther

Like the shepherds of old, we need to say in our hearts, "Let us see this thing which is come to pass." We need to desire it in our hearts. Let us see the Holy One of Israel in the manger, in the temple, on the mount, and on the cross. Like the shepherds, let us glorify and praise God for these tidings of great joy! ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is a transcendent awareness, a Big Mind, a Big Heart, present and readily accessible to each and every one of us. When we realize it, we see it is the source of true peace, happiness, satisfaction, courage and joy. ~ Dennis Merzel

What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart ~ Rumi

A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind? ~ Carson McCullers

My heart immersed in the depths of your eyes. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary animus against private property. You may call this phenomenon degeneracy. But I tell you that you cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into the prose of honest vegetation by any gingerbread reward, or by the offer of a secure position, or by the gift of money, or by a woman's love: because there is here a permanent beauty of risk, a fascinating abyss of danger, the delightful sinking of the heart, the impetuous pulsation of life, the ecstasy! ~ Thomas Seltzer

Extraordinary doesn't belong to the limited; it belongs to the distinctively beautiful ordinary soul. The soul who understands this truly honorable and simple perspective, holds unmatched happiness. ~ Debbie Lynn - 360 Degrees Full Circle

If lighthouse becomes a burning candle,
flickered upon ocean's insanity.
Your sailing heart there anchors to handle
the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity. ~ Munia Khan

Love was more than just a fleeting desire, or a brief glimpse into a fairy tale, or a flash of playful flirtation in her beautiful hazel eyes. It was more than infatuation with a person's best qualities, or reluctant acceptance of their less appealing traits. Real love meant loving the whole person, in every form, in every state, in every way. It was what transformed the ordinary monotony of everyday life into extraordinary moments of warmth and compassion and joy. ~ Jacqueline E. Smith

It hurts," Horatia gasped as the weight of everything descended upon her. Like knife shards embedded in her lungs, each breath she sucked in was ragged and icy.
"That's a good thing, my love. It means your heart is still alive. Just let it all out." Lucien brushed his lips along her tear-stained cheek and absorbed her shaking with his body.

-His Wicked Seduction ~ Lauren Smith

Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you?
No.
Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it. ~ S.E. Hinton

I am grateful for all the goodness in my life. I think life for bringing me so much joy. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

I leaned my face into his palm and he looked at me like it was the first time he ever saw me. I felt my heart burst. I wanted him to kiss me. I didn't care about what he owned, or what issues he had. I knew if we kissed, it would change us both. Even worse, I wanted to say I loved him. ~ Mercy Cortez

Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history. ~ Emile M. Cioran

Sure, at heart I wanted to be a Dickens, but I hated being great on command. ~ Rachel Heffington

A great leader has brains, vision, soul, values and a heart. ~ Klaus Schwab

E had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later. ~ Ransom Riggs

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. "Convince me," Snow said. It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta's life in limbo, I finally did. And In doing so, I gave him the weapon he needed to break me. ~ Suzanne Collins

The Praying Mantis Visits A Penthouse


The praying Mantis with its length of straw
Out of nowhere's forehead born full armed
Engaged the century at my terrace door.
Focused at inches the dinosaur insect sends
Broadsides of epic stillness at my eye,
Above the deafening projects of the age.
My love, who fears the thunder of its poise,
Has seen it and cries out. The clouds like curls
Fall in my faith as I seize a stick to stop
This Martian raid distilled to a straw with legs,
To wisps of prowess. Bristling with motionlessness
The Mantis prays to the Stick twice armed with Man.
I strike, the stick whistles, shearing off two legs
Which run off by themselves beneath some boards.
The Mantis spreads out tints of batlike wing,
The many colored pennants of its blood,
And hugs my weapon; the frantic greens come out,
the reds and yellows blurt out from the straw,
All sinews doubtless screaming insect death.
Against the railing's edge I knock the stick
Sending that gay mad body into the gulf.
Such noisy trappings in defeat wake doubts.
I search my mind for possible wounds and feel
The victim's body heavy on the victor's heart. ~ Oscar Williams

Nothin' baby. You just get close too quickly because you've got a big heart and you want a big love. ~ Robert Winter

The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. ~ Anonymous

Always be true to yourself and live your best life. ~ John R. Miller

And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. ~ William Shakespeare

I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. ~ Emily Dickinson

May god embrace
the mess in your head,
The chaos in your heart
And the flames in your eyes.

For you were never meant to
Be loved in pieces
Neither chained
Or even understood .

You are a piece of art
And a piece of art is only meant to be admired, desired, and
Kept away from anyone or anything that may mess with such kind of
Magic… ~ Samiha Totanji

Don't worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead. ~ Barbara Walters

When we are waiting, the double trajectory, from the ear that gathers in the sounds to the mind that processes and analyzes them, and from the mind to the heart to which it transmits its results, is so rapid that we are unable even to perceive its duration, and we seem to be listening directly with our hearts. ~ Marcel Proust

I don't like to plan. Very often, for me, acting is like loving; it's using the muscle that you use in loving, in that your heart feels open. Physically, you feel open. And so therefore your job is to enter, open, and listen. And see what happens. ~ Susan Sarandon

Good deeds, create good will, which opens the heart to the good news. ~ Eric Swanson

But I remind myself that I know you. I know your heart, and that will always stay the same, so I will always know you ... ~ Suzanne LaFleur

I want to wake up ev­ery day I have left to the warmth of your lips on mine, the sound of your voice singing next to me, the feel of your fin­gers on my skin and your heart beat­ing mu­sic with mine. ~ Christine Zolendz

It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Happiness is divine-state of satisfaction. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I hope to encourage people to take flight on their mats, in their lives, and in their hearts. ~ Kathryn Budig

Faith exalts the human heart, by removing it from the market-place, making it sacred and unexchangeable. Under the jurisdiction of religion our deeper feelings are sacralized, so as to become raw material for the ethical life: the life lived in judgement. ~ Roger Scruton