“You cannot save up your happiness; you can either feel it in the moment or you miss it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Many of us are colorblind to the joys and complexities of our lives and it is because we are missing a part of the foundation.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“There are three primary form of happiness. Just as removing one of the primary colors would make many others impossible, without any one of these happinesses, it is almost impossible to thrive.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“The idea that beautiful, joyous things could simply be ours without any conscious creation of them on our part is terrifying, because the opposite could just as well be true.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something…”— Garth Stein, amazon.com
“Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“You’ll have moments with someone that are so intense, it’ll feel like you’ve been electrocuted back to life. You’ll hold on to these moments for a long time. They’ll give you hope when you’re going through the motions.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to do. Don’t stay when you know you should go or go when you know you should stay. Don’t fight when you should hold steady or hold steady when you should fight. Don’t focus on the short-term fun instead of the long-term fall out. Don’t surr…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“You don’t usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there ever be enough?”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“In a dating and courtship relationship, I would not have you spend five minutes with someone who belittles you, one who is constantly critical of you, one who is cruel at your expense and may even call it humor. Life is tough enough without the person who is supposed to love you leading the assault…”— Jeffrey R. Holland, lds.org
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”— Mother Teresa, catholic.org
“Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.”— Helen Keller, amazon.com
“Maybe we’re not supposed to be happy, maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is, appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we’re thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we’r…”— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com
“When we have joy we crave to share, we remember them.”— Sylvan Kamens, Rabbie Jack Riember, dignitymemorial.com