The Book of Joy. The Sunday Times Bestseller

We people who care must be attractive, must be filled with joy, so that others recognize that caring, that helping and being generous are not a burden, they are a joy. Give the world your love, your service, your healing, but you can also give it your joy. This, too, is a great gift.”

Research suggests that cultivating your own joy and happiness has benefits not just for you, but also for others in your life.

There are going to be frustrations in life. The question is not: How do I escape? It is: How can I use this as something positive?

Brother David Steindl-Rast, a Catholic Benedictine monk and scholar who spent a great deal of time in Christian–Buddhist interfaith dialogue, has explained, “It is not happiness that makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy. Every moment is a gift. There is no certainty that you will have another moment, with all the opportunity th

Psychologist Kristin Neff has identified ways to express self-compassion:

I have never seen Archbishop Tutu miss an opportunity to thank someone or appreciate what he has been given.

necessary. They were necessary to remove the dross.

whenever we challenge ourselves, fear and doubt are inevitable.

The things that divide us (our ethnicity, our race, our nationality, even our gender) are much less significant than the things that unite us: our common humanity, our human emotions, and our fundamental desire to be happy and avoid suffering.

taking care of others, helping others, ultimately is the way to discover your own joy and to have a happy life.