Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

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LAUREN DESTEFANO When you see what happens, you have more of an appreciation of life and how good it really is.
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MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN In the end, the amount of money you spend is not proportional to how good or how quickly you feel be...
DELPHINE HIRSH We recognize the light and the joy he brought us. This is unbelievable, this unprecedented outpourin...
LERONE BENNETT We discover in others what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselv...
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE I can't control what happens on the outside but I can learn to control what happens on the inside. W...
AKIROQ BROST It's really how you accept things, how you allow yourself to feel things, how you communicate with p...
DELPHINE HIRSH When we aren't honest with ourselves about who we are and what we want, we allow other people and ci...
CORTNEY S. WARREN When we pity ourselves all we see is ourselves. When we have problems, all we see are our problems a...
ANN MARIE AGUILAR ...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what hap...
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JOHANN VON GOETHE We don’t have to allow ourselves to be defined by the labels imposed on us. We get to define ourse...
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UNKNOWN Happiness is what happens to us when we try to make someone else happy.
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AVIS J. WILLIAMS This happens to us over and over again. We get things at the last minute. This is really frustrating...
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MARIANNE FAITHFULL We can not tell what may happen to you in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens...
JOSEPH F. NEWTON I really don't know how good we are yet, ... It sounds odd, but we are still finding out some things...
MIKE HOLMGREN The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do un...
ERIC HOFFER The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do u...
ERIC HOFFER We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE We as people are quick to criticize ourselves and not so quick to give ourselves praise. I make sure...
CYNTHIA WILLIAMS If there is a message at all, it's probably that we have to recognize in ourselves how we feel moral...
ESTEE LAUDER this sounds a little simple, but I think if we didnt know illness we wouldnt really feel the exhilir...
PRISCILLA WARNER When we are forced to adapt to something unknown to us, we learn things about ourselves. This knowle...
MATT GANNON But sometimes stuff happens and we find ourselves lost, and suddenly we're standing in a place we do...
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BOBBY W. MILLER If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
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AYN RAND Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demi...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, mon...
JULIA CAMERON When we allow great minds to sleep, we allow great things to sleep!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH At times it may feel as if we are helpless to what happens to us, and that things happen without rhy...
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MARK ROGERSON We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
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J.M. HARRISON Freewill.

Some have called it the greatest gift bestowed on humanity. It is our ability t...
SHERRILYN KENYON "Sometimes life gets in the way, we fail to recognize what great friends we have, until they come to...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves ...
C.S. LEWIS Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Be...
SIDNEY JOURARD When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffe...
M SCOTT PECK When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffe...
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SELMA JAMES We are responsible. There is nothing being done to us apart from what we are doing to ourselves.
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NELSON BOSWELL I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that th...
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LETICIA RAE We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recogni...
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MARIANNE WILLIAMSON If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to y...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are beautiful because God created us that way
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transf...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world w...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In every moment, we teach either love or fear. As we demonstrate love towards others....we learn how...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the he...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We embrace the idea -- advanced by both ancient philosophers and modern physicists -- that the world...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love -...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ou...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fea...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will n...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness b...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spe...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it wi...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to c...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it ...
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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

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