Tony Robbins Quotes

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.

The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

But you see," said Roark quietly, "I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I’ve chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I’m only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.

Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.

Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it.

If it's not happening, write your own thing!

There's been a false and negative distinction that's been made between joy and happiness. Unfortunately, the message we send to those both inside and outside the church is, "Seeking happiness is superficial and shallow. Go out and get it in the world, but you won't find happiness in God." But all people seek happiness, and because they do, we're basically telling them, "Stop seeking what God Himself wired you to seek." What we should be saying is, "Seek your happiness in the right place - in God Himself."

Our original nature is...void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself.

The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.

O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes to me in darkness and that works things I cannot see. Teach me to be happy that I can depend on You. To depend on You should be enough for an eternity of joy. To depend on You by itself ought to be infinitely greater than any joy which my own intellectual appetite could desire.

The deep hurt is the mirror image of the deep joy that still awaits you.

Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.

The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with...greater joy, peace, and happiness.

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

Each encounter with Jesus fills us with joy, with that deep joy which only God can give.

Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.

The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation.