Don't postpone joy
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Don't postpone joy
Poet Mary Oliver on allowing yourself to be happy and full: "If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. ...whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb."
What pleasure are you postponing?
Sarah B. Breathnach • Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort & Joy
Approaching joy from a position of power looks like recognizing that joy does not need to be notarized by some external marker before you’re allowed to officially feel it. The positive moments that are happening in your life now are real. Whether they stay or go does not make them less real now.
Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
Joy doesn’t replace any emotion; it holds them all and keeps any one of them from swallowing us whole. Society has failed to understand this. When it tells us to find joy in suffering, it is telling us to let it go, to move on, to smile through it. But joy says, Hold on to your sorrow. It can rest safely here.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
