Joy Quote by Nik Ripken

“Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy.”

— Neal Shusterman

“For so many years, the official propaganda machinery had denounced humanitarianism as sentimental trash and advocated human relations based entirely on class allegiance. But…

— Nien Cheng

“Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy. The best we get is pleasantness”

— Neal Shusterman

“As I gazed at Mao’s face wearing what was intended as a benign expression but was in fact a smirk of self-satisfaction, I wondered…

— Nien Cheng

“You can't fake joy. Authentic joy is the kind that grows out of the soil of pain and doubt and fear, because that is…

— Holly Ordway

“In the specially Christian case we have to react against the heavy bias of fatigue. It is almost impossible to make the facts vivid,…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering the converse does. The brave who focus and all things good…

— Ann Voscamp

“There was every reason to feel natural joy in the world, but for the one that makes it accessible. When your spirit is uneasy,…

— Niall Williams

“And like the missing chips in this china, pieces of my spirit were also gone, destroyed by people who claimed to love me.”

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

“By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we…

— Sharon Salzberg

“This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.”

— Wendy Beckett

“Joy is as thorny and sharp as any of the dark emotions. To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart,…

— Brené Brown