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Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

You can’t fake joy. Authentic joy is the kind that grows out of the soil of pain and doubt and fear, because that is the reality of the world.

Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).

Charlotte Brontë

Our power of being happy lies a good deal in ourselves, I believe.

Laurie Buchanan

HAPPINESS is based on externals; it fluctuates up and down every day. JOY, on the other hand, is internal; it can be cultivated and nurtured. We can be joyful even in the midst of a chaotic, unpredictable world.

… but happiness is to joy as an electric light bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you’re happy because of something, it’s a condition whose existence depends on external things. Joy, on the other hand, has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it’s like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.

Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.

Chuck Palahniuk

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

Steven Galloway

She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it. Now, however, she knows she wasn’t being foolish. She realizes that for no particular reason she stumbled into the core of what it is to be human. It’s a rare gift to under stand that you life is wondrous, and that it won’t last forever.

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

You can’t fake joy. Authentic joy is the kind that grows out of the soil of pain and doubt and fear, because that is the reality of the world.

Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).