Quotes About Choosing Joy

#1. Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

Marianne Williamson

#2. All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action.

Billy Porter

#3. In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves into a different matter altogether.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#4. God, I miss you," she said. "Missed? Or miss?" "Miss." "But I'm right here," I said into her hair. "I miss you anyway.

Paula Garner

#5. You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.

Ian Rankin

#6. It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

Robert Heilbroner

#7. Let us look at our own shortcomings and leave other people's alone; for those who live carefully ordered lives are apt to be shocked at everything and we might well learn very important lessons from the persons who shock us. Our

Teresa Of Avila

#8. What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy.

John Piper

#9. Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.

Natalie Angier

#10. In the darkness, I returned to that small world of hers.

Haruki Murakami

#11. Then the clouds curtsy in, the rain kneels upon the land, and the weather knocks them back a whole day and a half.

Colum McCann

#12. Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

#13. [Jews are] murderers of the Lord, assassins of the prophets, rebels against God, God haters, ... advocates of the devil, race of vipers, slanderers, calumniators, dark-minded people, leaven of the Pharisees, sanhedrin of demons, sinners, wicked men, stoners, and haters of righteousness.

Gregory Of Nyssa

#14. Anyway that other thing we almost did in Paris-that's probably off the table for a while.Unless you want that whole baby-I'm-on-fire-when-we kiss thing to become freakishly literal

Cassandra Clare

#15. Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

Henry Rollins

#16. Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

Edward Norton

#17. Liberal economists conceive of societies as black boxes connected by exchange rates; as long as exchange rates are correct, what goes on inside the black box is regarded as not very important.

Robert Gilpin

#18. It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.

Maya Angelou

#19. Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.

Oswald Chambers

#20. In Paris, choosing a dress is a monumental decision. In Milan, it's a kick.

Chris Dee

#21. I won the battles, Justin. And I won the war. And now there is no more fighting. Now there is peace. You told me to let the joy win out, and I am choosing to do that.

Jessica Park

#22. Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

Henri J.M. Nouwen