“Joy isn’t something you can optimize or manufacture—it finds us at the edge of expectation, when life interrupts our scripts. Joy reminds us that no matter what, life is still worth loving. For every time we ask is this it?, joy will answer: There is more.” –Joyful Anyway
“If life is going to be hard, what’s going to be so rich and good is that [joy] could happen anywhere, at anytime, and doesn’t all need to add up. I am in it for the jokes, in it for the joy.” -Kate Bowler
“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.” -James Allen
“Forgiving yourself allows you to let go of the person you thought you needed to be. Forgiving others allows you to accept what happened and let go of needing to change it.” -Najwa Zebian