If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.
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I have a great deal of joy in my life, and I'm very fortunate. That combination makes you aware of just how wonderful life can be on the one hand and how dreadful it can be for people on the other. You can't be happy in isolation.
One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.
Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.
I think I was always joyous, but I don't think I became very aware of positivity and its power until I became older. I always did it naturally, but then I lost it, and it forced me to find it again and appreciate it more.
I've always said you have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy.
When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.
I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
There is no day more joyful in my life than when I see all my family around me. That's the best it gets.
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
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