Quotes by Joy Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, Ayn Rand goal joy men For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners. Ayn Rand running joy religion Are soft-hearted people handicapped in business? You have heard a businessman say of someone else, He's all right, but he's too soft-hearted.... To be soft-hearted may be handicapping, in a sense. But on the whole, a soft heart is to be preferred to a hard heart. Hard-hearted, severe, dominating giants sometimes manage to get further and to amass more money. But they get less genuine joy out of life.... It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most to endanger the harmonious progress of democracy. B. C. Forbes heart joy people The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys. B. C. Forbes sorrow real joy Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. B. C. Forbes selfishness generosity joy He who is full of joy is full of love. Baal Shem Tov joy Joy is more infectious than leprosy. Baba Amte leprosy joy I remember, when I was young, How easily my mood changed from sad to gay. ... But now that age comes, A moment of joy is harder and harder to get. Bai Juyi gay age joy What we can do is to live out our lives as best we can with purpose, and love, and joy. We can use each day to show those who are closest to us how much we care about them, and treat others with the kindness and respect that we wish for ourselves. We can learn from our mistakes and grow from our failures. And we can strive at all costs to make a better world. Barack Obama kindness mistake joy Never read Who Moved My Cheese in the workplace when you can read The Joy of Not Working. Barack Obama cheese joy advice Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self. Barbara Ascher solitary self joy I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this. Barbara Ehrenreich joy years thinking Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending. Barbara Holland sturdy weed joy If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it shows us that war was one of our most universal joys from our earliest beginnings, savored at every possible opportunity and even some quite incomprehensible ones. Barbara Holland opportunity joy war To extract the fullest flavor of our drinking house, we needed to spend serious evening time there, slowly coming to know the bartender and the regulars, their joys and sorrows. Barbara Holland drinking house joy Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe. Barbara Holland rats home joy If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life. Barbara Johnson forgiving joy believe You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there. Barbara Johnson light joy looks The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed Barbara Johnson mother joy children We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be. Barbara Johnson glimpse joy people «1314151617181920212223»
