Selected Quotes on Joy

You wouldn't think it would be so easy to forget who we really are; or that death is always at our shoulder; or that everything is alive; or that God is everywhere singing!

~ Claudia Mauro

Skip, Jump, Giggle

~ Liz Thul

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened.
Don't open the door to the study and begin reading.
Take down a musical instruent.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

~ Rumi

Joy is the tie that binds us together. Each laugh, every kiss, each embrace deepens our bond. When we encounter one another it is an epiphany of joy.

~ Brad Colby

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Skip, Jump, Giggle, Burp (oops scuse me)

~ Liz Thul

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

~ Henry Emerson Fosdick

I have no hope save to wash away the bitterness and leave more room for joy.

~ Brad Colby

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

~ Lin Yutang

Whew, wow, wow, jump, skip, giggle, cartwheel TGIF!

~ Liz Thul

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

~ Katharine Hepburn

The problem with revolution, of course, is violence. It would be neat to take part in a nonviolent revolution of inclusion where by the revolutionaries simply have a good laugh, and welcome anyone else to dinner.

~ Kate Borstein in Gender Outlaw (p.132)

Does our living have meaning inherent in itself -- before any organizing principle, belief, belonging? And can we simply BE and BE JOYFUL?

~ Brad Colby

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