4,580 Quotes About Joy

Just us fancy wise-men trying to take on the world.

Safety" and "fairness" are the preoccupation of the wounded. "Being" and "joy" are the unconscious realities of the free and living.

We know God by cultivating a relationship, not by understanding a concept.The relation constitutes the very subjectivity of of our existence. We participate in existence consciously and rationally, with subjective self-knowledge and identity, because the erotic drive of our nature is transformed into a personal relation when there arises in the space of the Other the first signifier of desire: the maternal presence. The subject is born with love's first leap of joy.

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all.[Said after making man's first ascent by hydrogen balloon in 1783]

Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I danced.'Pray,' they said, and I laughed,covering myself in the earth's brightnesses,and then stole off gray into the midst of a revel,and prayed like an orphan.

If I were in his(Prophet Muhammad) presence, I would wash his feet.

It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish.

The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization.

We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher.