"Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you."
-Eileen Caddy 

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude."
Karl Barth 

"Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy."
-Sarah Ban Breathnach 

“Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, ‘Grow, grow.’”
 ~ The Talmud

"We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities." - Fred G. Gosman

"There is more to life than increasing its speed." 
 -Mahatma Gandhi

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony."
 – Mahatma Gandhi

"Your breathing is your greatest friend. Return to it in all your troubles and you will find comfort and guidance.."
 – The Teaching of Buddhist Master

"Your true nature is purity, peace and joy." 

Sathya Sai Baba 

Your intention rules your life and determines the outcome. 
-Oprah

What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.
-Oprah Winfrey 

The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.
-Alexandra Stoddard 

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.
-Mary Anne Radmacher 

True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything.
-Paul Pearsall 

As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.
-Arnold Patent 

Where there is love there is life.
-Mahatma Gandhi 

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
-Mahatma Gandhi 

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli 

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes other feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
-Dalai Lama 

I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.
-Dalai Lama 

Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. They you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
-Alan Cohen 

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
-Judy Collins 

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
-Julia Cameron 

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
-Emily Brontë 

"May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy." -Buddha