“Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Fulfillment is found through connection to something bigger than the self. Find service, find joy.” -Sahil Bloom
“Joy is the abiding and pervasive sense of well being.” -Fr. Mike Schmitz
“My advice to the person suffering from lack of time and from apathy is this: Seek out each day as many as possible of the small joys.” -Herman Hesse
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” -Thich Hat Hanh
“Joy is always in process. It’s under construction. It is in constant approach, alive and well in the doing of what we’re fashioned to do.” -Matthew McConaghey
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” -Rumi
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sunrise. -William Blake
Happiness is a feeling, and as such, it is fleeting at best. It comes and goes like the wind.
Joy, on the other hand, is a choice. It’s not dependent on circumstances or emotions. It’s within your control. You can actively seek it out by willing the good of the other. And it lasts.
Therefore, in all things and circumstances, choose joy.
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