4,580 Quotes About Joy

God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses.

Lies are like anchovies in a Caesar salad. You may not be able to see them, but your soul knows they are there.

If we want to grow, the way to break a pattern of negativity is to face anything negative with love.

People who tell untruths are easily deceived because they have placed their energy in that negative vibration location and are now a match for that behavior.

Sometimes we take leaps of faith, and sometimes we take tiny steps. Even the tiniest step can require a lot of courage. Like climbing out of denial and admitting my real need for help. Like trusting someone who said I wouldn’t die from eating a bowl of pasta, and taking another bite. Like reaching for a pen or a yoga mat when what I really wanted to do was reach for a cookie. Like searching for a smile in my heart when my mind was busy screaming about how sad and serious I should be.

When I was around Sunny, there was no time to dream about some easier, prettier, more comprehensible, less fucked-up existence. Now was all we had: Sunny lifting her eyes to meet mine. Cupping water in my own hands to rinse the blood off her head. Sunny’s tongue on my nose, her tail thudding on my leg. The reach of my hand across her spine. The words of comfort and rage and fear and sadness and hope that I spoke only in her presence.

Sometimes when dogs greeted a returning soldier, they'd go over the edge. They would have to take a few moments to run crazily in circles around the human, or around a room or a yard. I'd have to take a break from watching, so my brain had a chance to absorb what I was seeing: that there is such a thing as joy being bigger than the container that holds it.

Live joy. Be kind. Love unconditionally.

Wherever you are, you have to be joyfully alive.