Quotes by Joy The way to find your happiness joy is to make a list of all the things that are fun for YOU to do. Then do some of those things everyday. Anita Moorjani everyday joy fun We don't have to go in search of our mission or purpose. The more we search for it, the more it will elude us. We just have to be ourselves and find our joy in the present moment or do what calls us in the present moment and our mission will unfold. Anita Moorjani elude-us purpose joy It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy. Ann Brashares putting-yourself-out-there roots joy Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended. Ann Brashares mourning joy beautiful Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one. Ann Druyan couple joy long Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose. Ann Romney riding purpose joy Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well. Ann Voskamp stress choices joy It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life. Ann Voskamp thanks habit joy Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything. Ann Voskamp real-joy real joy ...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is. Ann Voskamp secret doubt joy When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us? Ann Voskamp broken rain joy As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible. Ann Voskamp gratitude joy long Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy. Ann Voskamp joy giving reality You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy. Ann Voskamp remembered joy Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin. Ann Voskamp stress joy way The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith. Ann Voskamp battle fighting joy Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces. Ann Voskamp grace joy lying I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too? Ann Voskamp anxiety self joy Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life. Ann Voskamp blessing joy water Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will. Ann Voskamp fullness joy «89101112131415161718»