Laurence Sterne Quotes

Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything - real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can't get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you're in for the ride of your life.

Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in yourself. We spend so much time trying to control our feelings out of fear that something may happen, that somebody may not love us, or walk away or die. It's only when you stop living in that fear of what other people might do to you or how they will react, only then are you free to be alive.

Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.

When we meditate, we go beyond the swirl of thoughts, memories and emotions that tend to keep us stuck in our ego's story of who we are. We enter an expanded state of awareness and discover our own inner fountain of joy, a source of happiness that isn't dependent on anyone or anything.

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

When we give way to joy, we do not feel that we have lost control, but gained freedom.

I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.

If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life as a victim. And you won't experience a liberation that comes from forgiving.

the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.

When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

Life passes. Eternity comes to meet us with great strides. Soon we shall be living with the very life of Jesus. Having drunk deep at the source of all bitterness, we shall be deified in the very source of all joys, of all delights.

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.

To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands; we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.

Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.

Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

The loving parts of your personality are content, grateful, patient, appreciative, caring, and more. They are interested in others. They do not judge others or themselves. They are not confined by fear. The more you experience them, the more you experience joy.

An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.