There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
If money is your hope for independence,
you will never have it.
The only real security that
a man can have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success.
- Henry Ford
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
If everyone is moving forward together,
then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford
A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My joy is the golden sunset
giving thanks for another day.
Gratitude itself is a source of joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dance Lightly With Life:
Today is your day to
dance lightly with life,
sing wild songs of adventure,
soar your spirit,
unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is your day to dance lightly with life,
sing wild songs of adventure,
invite rainbows and butterflies out to play,
soar your spirit, and unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace,
to All Those Around Me
and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Hoist the sails of CHOICE
to harness the winds of JOY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path of the adventurer is a path of joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.
- Joseph Campbell
Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail
to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- Victor Hugo
We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Scuttle the Assumptions, dash the Expectations,
and hoist the sails of CHOICE to harness the winds of JOY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Have NO EXPECTATIONS.
Life will not meet your expectations.
Choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows;
your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.
- Osho
Grin your smile;
giggle your laugh;
unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, I choose to create joy in my life.
Whatever my external circumstances,
I choose to see all of life through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Joy in looking and comprehending
is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves
into a different matter altogether.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gratitude itself is a source of joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
I serve others by living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is my day to dance lightly with life,
sing wild songs of adventure,
invite rainbows & butterflies out to play,
soar my spirit, and unfurl my joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
When the universal sacraments of compassion and joy
fill the vast cathedral of our being,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
The vast Cathedral of Your Being
becomes sanctuary for all creation
as you celebrate the universal sacraments
of compassion and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
its loveliness increases;
it will never pass into nothingness.
- John Keats
The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
To discover joy is to return to
a state of oneness with the universe.
- Peggy Jenkins
I soar my spirit, and unfurl my joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
We would never have a word for Joy
if there were no suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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