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Just think how happy you’d be if you lost everything you have right now – and got it back again.
“Instead of bewailing the fact that we can’t have all that we want, many of us should be thankful we don’t get all we deserve.”
Think of all the things you don’t have that you don’t want!
“I am determined to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not our circumstances.”
Happiness is a particular sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. – Anonymous
“Some people call the glass half empty, some call it half full. Some people are just happy to have a glass.” – Savannah Wiliams
Finding joy is like panning for gold. A prospector doesn’t go out into the stream and pick up large bars of gold. He scoops up water, sand and gravel in his pan. He swirls it around, drains it, and finds a few gold nuggets occasionally. It is long, hard work. It is the same with finding joy in our lives. You aren’t likely to find it in one large chunk. Rather, you sift through the craziness of life, the chaos of everyday living, and find moments of sweet joy – captured one nugget at a time. Joy comes in pieces. – Shannon Williams
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. – Margaret Lee Runbeck
Life on this earth can be lived on so many different levels – Every moment contains joy if we know the law that extracts it.
Joy is happiness combined with the spirit of the Lord.
Next time you pass a rosebush in bloom without stopping to smell, ask yourself honestly if the place you’re rushing to get to will give you more joy than what you’ve just passed up.
If the joy we find is not permanent then it’s made of the wrong stuff.
If we define a good day as the absence of trials, we won’t have many.
Phillipians 4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want, for I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people happy?
Joy is not in things, it is in us. – Richard Wagner
The city of happiness is found in the state of mind
Smile. If you can’t raise the corners of your mouth, at least let the middle drop.
J – Jesus (put Jesus first)
O – Others (put others second)
Y – Yourself (put yourself third)
God blesses us according to our need, not our greed. When we put God first in our lives, greed disappears and we are content with life. When God is not first in our lives, greed reappears and we go seeking joy elsewhere.
John Bytheway said something to the effect: Think of your emotions as a remote control. Are you willing to turn over the remote control to another person? Who will you allow to control your emotions? Always keep the remote for yourself.
“Just because God is smiling on someone else doesn’t mean He is frowning on you.” – Becky Young Fawcett (Ensign September 2015 pg 24)
Jeffrey Holland “Brothers and sisters, there are going to be times in our lives when someone else gets an unexpected blessing or receives some special recognition. May I plead with us not to be hurt – and certainly not to feel envious – when good fortune comes to another person? We are not diminished when someone else is added upon. We are not in a race against each other to see who is the wealthiest or the most talented or the most beautiful or even the most blessed. The race we are really in is the race again sin, and surely envy is one of the most universal of those.” Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “The Laborers in the Vineyard,” Ensign, May 2012, 31.
“Somehow, our joyful experiences mean more when we are fully conscious of the alternatives and the contrasts that surround us. We prize the sweet more when we have tasted the bitter. We appreciate our health when we see sickness. We truly love peace when we know the ugliness of war. These contrasts do not deter our idealism…..they only make the moments of true joy worth waiting for.” – Bruce Hafen
Dr. Wayne Dyer said, “You always have options. In every situation in your life, you can choose how you are going to deal with it and how you are going to feel about it. Wherever you find yourself, whatever the circumstances, you can make the situation into a learning or growing experience. Whether you are in a hospital bed, a routine job, in New York City or Wide-Spot-in-the-Road, Missouri, the setting is irrelevant. You can be alive enough to get something out of the experience, and you can either like where you are or, if you prefer, work at moving to another, more fulfilling place.”
“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
“I will impart unto you of my Spirit, which shall fill your soul with joy.” – D&C 11:13
When we feel the spirit, it prompts us to be obedient – which will bring us joy. When we feel the spirit, it prompts us to serve others, which will bring us joy. When we feel the spirit, it causes that great and mighty change to take place in our hearts– which will also bring us joy. – Shannon Williams
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