Top 72 Joy Growth Quotes
#1. To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and at the same time that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.
Marshall Berman
#2. If you are miserable you grow in misery and if you are joyful you grow in joy.
Bryant McGill
#3. Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower ... beautiful in essence.
Tony Samara
#4. Accept your dark side, understanding it will help you to move with the light. Knowing both sides of our souls, helps us all to move forward in life and to understand that, perfection doesn't exist.
Martin R. Lemieux
#5. From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.
T.F. Hodge
#6. Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.
John Piper
#7. Ancient days of sorrow
ancient days of pain
-
heartaches of the past
slowly began to wane ...
(from gleaning granules)
Muse
#8. The only reason you continue to love someone who treats you poorly is because you don't value yourself enough.
Rob Liano
#9. Regardless of whether a relationship brings us joy or sorrow, each relationship gives us the opportunity to grow stronger, nobler, and more compassionate with ourselves and others.
Tamela Rich
#10. Our patents' old age shocks us in the same manner that our children's growth to maturity does , but without the joy.
Azar Nafisi
#11. EACH DAY OF HUMAN life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature's grand design-do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.
Morihei Ueshiba
#12. The path to joy and spiritual fulfilment requires the courage to change and grow.
A.G. Roemmers
#13. People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.
Joy Page
#14. Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.
Chip Ingram
#15. Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste joy, and if we are suspicious of ecstasy, agony can never reach us either. Joy and sorrow are the parents of our spiritual growth.
Henri Nouwen
#16. For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. Let us see what tomorrow will bring us? Will it be joy and triumph, chaos and glory, love and growth, or victory and success?
Ana Monnar
#18. Embracing conflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and fascination.
Thomas Crum
#19. Our suffering, as well as our joy, shapes who we are and who we will become. We may wish for all of our trials to be taken away, but to do so would be a great disservice to our personal growth.
Callie Kanno
#20. If joy and peace and rewards were instantaneously given the doer of good, there would be no evil-all would do good but not because of the rightness of doing good. There would be no test of strength, no development of character, no growth of powers, no free agency, only satanic controls.
Spencer W. Kimball
#21. The complaints of many Christians as to lack of joy and strength, as to failure and want of growth, are simply owing to this - the place God gave Holiness in His call they have not given it in their response. God and they have never yet come to an agreement on this.
Andrew Murray
#22. It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.
Anna White
#24. A joy in living, a natural expression of the will to survive all personal disaster, can be constant despite whatever changes take place. Some fortunate people are born with it and others acquire it through learning and growth.
Faith Baldwin
#26. Our faith is watered and we flourish when we reach out to others in love. We think good times and comfort will make us happy. But history shows that the people who are filled with the most joy and contentment are those who reach out to others-despite tough times
Laurie Ostby Kehler
#27. Accompanying the people in their growth through good times and also through their difficulties, accompanying people in their joy and in their bad moments, in their difficulties when there is no work, ill health and the challenge of the Church.
Pope Francis
#28. Making peace with one's truth is to live in one's own moment, moving passionately forward in joy.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#29. Our outer relationships are a mirror of the relationship and communication between our own inner male and female sides. Our outer relationships with a man or a woman are a possibility to understand our own inner man or woman.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#30. When we allow ourselves to be authentically free, it raises our vibration.
Alaric Hutchinson
#31. You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.
Leo Buscaglia
#32. We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world
Helen Keller
#33. The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.
Mary E. DeMuth
#34. Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#35. The basis of your life is absolute freedom, the goal is joy, and the result of that perfect combination is motion forward, or growth. Your goal is to find objects of attention that let your cork raise.
Abraham Hicks
#36. To develop understanding and compassion for who we are as introverts, we must be able to explore who we are, what makes us happy, what makes us unhappy, and what our
subsequent needs are.
Aletheia Luna
#37. Courage is freedom, and freedom is joy. Be fully who you are, letting the world get used to you - it will! Find a loving community of friends who support your ever-flowering growth, which is a lifetime proposition.
Doris "Granny D" Haddock
#38. Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.
Chip Ingram
#39. There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.
R.A. Salvatore
#40. Through becoming aware of how the inner man and woman relates and communicates inside ourselves, it creates a joy and satisfaction in the three life areas that they influence: our meditation and inner growth, our relationships and our work and creativity.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#41. The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley
#42. Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.
Alvin Ailey
#43. If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.
Chip Ingram
#44. When we have developed a trust in both our inner man and woman and they can nourish, support, communicate and cooperate with each other, a love begins to flow between them.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#45. Embracing conflict can be a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and the re-engergizing of ourselves and others. Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
Billy Graham
#46. But if a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is. I'm grateful for it.
Banana Yoshimoto
#47. That's the bittersweet joy of ministry. We see people healed, and then we watch them move on in victory. Sometimes, it means saying goodbye. We must learn to celebrate as our fledgling birds spread their wings and fly into freedom, even if that flight pattern takes them far away from us.
Katherine J. Walden
#48. You are the biggest threat to your emotional and physical health if you don't set aside time for relaxation, joy, and personal growth.
Maddy Malhotra
#49. The world today speaks a great deal about love, and it is sought by many. But the pure love of Christ differs greatly from what the world thinks of love. Charity never seeks selfish gratification. The pure love of Christ seeks only the eternal growth and joy of others.
Ezra Taft Benson
#50. Love says, "I'm with you, let's deal with it.
Chip Ingram
#51. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.
Bruce Mau
#53. Out of what I had received in my development, I was also able to give. The confidence I gained from personal growth gave me credibility and made me believe I could start developing others. And in that, I found life's greatest joy and reward.
John C. Maxwell
#54. Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with brief moments of joy. Be alive to the abundant potential that surrounds you so that you live a life of peace and happiness with periods of challenging growth.
Richard G. Scott
#55. When we understand the illusory nature of life and the profound power of eternal love, which enables us to create miracles and experience the presence of our deceased loved ones, we find ourselves living with joy, hope and peace.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#56. As a being and life form, all of mankind must seek the absolute sunshine of being. To do otherwise is to deny the essence of life; which is growth in body mind and soul. These in turn reflects Self love.
Auliq Ice
#57. I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.
Nina Berberova
#58. I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.
Jack Canfield
#59. If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel the joy, passion, and happiness that living fully and loving deeply bring.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#60. Habits are a way of life and often define our lives. Habitually miserable? You'll see misery in most circumstances. Habitually joyful? You'll see joy in most situations. My goal is to choose habits that empower me and break those that wear me down.
Charles F. Glassman
#61. Instead of viewing God as one who helps me accomplish my purposes, it is now my joy to help God accomplish the divine purpose - seeking the best for others and seeking the growth of the beloved, which is to say everyone.
Philip Gulley
#62. The trail should be enjoyed, and when joy is difficult to achieve, personal growth should become the focus. Still,
Zach Davis
#63. We make very little progress when we strive to conquer baser instincts in a good mood. However, vast strides are possible when we are miserable and work with ourselves to replace our misery with joy and understanding.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#64. Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.
A.J. Muste
#66. Because we are always growing, life compounds and magnifies what is already in us. If you are miserable you grow in misery and if you are joyful you grow in joy. This makes self-love is the perfect soil from which to grow love.
Bryant McGill
#67. When people confront the past - their sins, wounds, and curses - they experience amazing joy, freedom, and spiritual growth. They move from just the assurance of their salvation to an experience of divine deliverance.
Chris Hodges
#68. I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.
Rumi
#70. When truthful knowledge is dispensed, soul growth is accomplished every time, for all parties involved, in every situation.
Molly Friedenfeld
#71. That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the center of its being ... is the force of love. Christians call this "eternal blessedness." It is a necessity of man for growth and joy.
Gustav Mahler
#72. The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.
Don Cheadle
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