.•●•○•*☆♡JOY♡☆*•○•●•.

"You’ve seen my descent now watch my rising."

~Rumi

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."

~ Rumi

"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." 

~Joseph Campbell

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."

~Buddha

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

~Albert Einstein

"If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that."

~Ellen DeGeneres

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” 

~Helen Keller, The Story of My Life 

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.” 

― Rumi

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.” 

But I say unto you, they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.” 

― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet