Spontaneous Joy Quotes

#1. True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others.

Deepak Chopra

#2. Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.

Luke Rhinehart

#3. In Western culture, the joyous shouting of children often irritates us because it interferes with our depression. That is why we have invented a term, hyperactivity, so that we can, in good conscience, sedate the spontaneous joy in many of our children.

Ronald Rolheiser

#4. The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart.

William Butler Yeats

#5. I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

Isadora Duncan

#6. You see," I explained to Joshua, "what Joy is doing is ironic, yet that's not her intent. That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm."
"No kidding?" said Josh.
"Why do I waste my time with you?

Christopher Moore

#7. Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

Andrew Weil

#8. True growth is a process which one allows to happen rather than causes to happen.

Gerald May

#9. When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a united team connected at the heart level.

Molly Friedenfeld

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Jeffrey Bewkes

#11. Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

Wyndham Lewis

#12. I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.

Simon McBurney

#13. We should have brought a torch," he was saying. "We have been to Saturn and back and we didn't bring a torch.

Alastair Reynolds

#14. You can chase love. If you are lucky enough to catch it ... is it really yours?

Brian MacLearn

#15. Service is the joy-giving factor in daily life. It is as spontaneous as light, as subtle as electricity, as exhilarating as sunshine. It exists primarily as a spiritual attitude. It lies in the constant recognition of the brotherhood of humanity toward each and all with whom we come in contact.

Lilian Whiting

#16. Our town carves up and spits out a few seeds each year. We all approach autumn with dread because nobody wants to be a seed.

Howard Odentz

#17. It's clear that other problems such as [ ... ] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

Richard Stallman

#18. What are you trying to prove? Do you think if you kill enough people in the worst ways imaginable they'll give you a name like the Madman, or the Butcher? It doesn't matter how many abhorrent tortures you devise. You'll always be the Pinhead.

Clive Barker

#19. The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.

Iris Murdoch

#20. Prayer is the spontaneous response of the believing heart to God. Those truly transformed by Jesus Christ find themselves lost in wonder and joy of communion with Him. Prayer is as natural for the Christian as breathing

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#21. True happiness Is not a mental hallucination. True happiness Is not a complacent feeling. True happiness Is the spontaneous feeling of joy That comes from knowing 132 You are doing the right thing 133 And leading a divine life.

Sri Chinmoy

#22. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power.

Starhawk

#23. Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears. Love lives the moment; it's neither lost in yesteryear nor does it crave for tomorrow. Love is NOW!

Leo Buscaglia

#24. Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.

Timothy Keller

#25. Never underestimate the lingering effects of a dash of spontaneous comfort.

Gina Greenlee