The best response to life is joy.
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If ever there were a look of joy!
Photo of Morgan ©Emma Macallister

Your mind can never change
Unless you ask it to
Lovingly re-arrange
The thoughts that make you blue
The things that bring you down
Only do harm to you
And so make your choice joy
The joy belongs to you
Massive Attack, What Your Soul Sings

Photo ©Jeff Deverter. Click on photo for info.

Each choice we make causes a ripple effect in our lives. When things happen to us, it is the reaction we choose that can create the difference between the sorrows of our past and the joy in our future.
Chelle Thompson 

This is truly marvelous work:  full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, the color of whimsy.
Pete Hamill

When I dwell on the goodness God has expressed towards me, my heart rises up like an artesian well, my eyes gush forth joy that waters my face and leaves the observer in wonder.
Gary Amirault

I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature’s rebirth?
Edward Giobbi

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness… all the good things.
Maya Angelou

Joy is our goal, our destiny.  We cannot know who we are except in Joy.  Not knowing Joy, we do not know ourselves.
Marianne Williamson

Joy is a great purifier.  It burns away many polluted currents trying to reach us.
Torkom Saraydarian

If you are not living in joy, you are out of integrity with your soul.
Michael Bernard  Beckwith

©National Geographic, Carsten Peter photographer

There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.
Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

©Mount Washington Observatory, 4/4/13. 

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci

He brings into my life the very essence of friendship, trust and pure, unbridled joy…
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Otto an Assistance Dog, at Mystic Aquarium.

Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Psalm 90:14

If we follow our own instincts, our wishes, our own thoughts, our own decisions, we should never know anything but joy and health.
Jack  Boland