Musings of a Chocoholic Romance Author: Joy

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Looking Forward to 2012

Who's ready for 2012?

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Me neither! But it's coming whether we're ready for it or not, and it'll be here this weekend! Boggles the ol' braincell. With a whole new year of promise open like a blank slate looming just days ahead, I've been thinking about what it is I want from 2012. The answer is below.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Marianne Williamson

***Lettherebejoy.Lettherebejoy.Lettherebejoy.Lettherebejoy.Lettherebejoy.Lettherebejoy.***

May your 2012 be filled with JOY, peace, happiness, health, stability, love, faith, laughter, living, music, dance, promise and knowledge. Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, November 28, 2011

Joy!

Holiday happiness - letting it leak over into LIFE itself. Today's goal: Finding Joy! in my life.

Joy! You can jump with joy, you can sing with joy, you can spread joy, you can share joy, you can be a joy to others, you can dance with joy, you can speak with joy, you can enjoy, you can do things joyfully.

Take a moment in the middle of your busy day and find 2 or 3 or 5 or 10 things that bring joy to you. The joys in my life are: Family, Friends, Writing, A fluffy white cloud in the middle of the bright blue sky that reflects the sunlight, Memories, A full moon, The look of utter devotion on my dog's face, and Hugging my kids. Once you start, it's hard to stop. I could go on and on. :)

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Chinese proverb

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell

To find joy in another's joy
that is the secret of happiness.

George Bernanos

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Dr. Melba Colgrove

Joy is very infectious; therefore, be always full of joy.

Mother Teresa

Last, but not to the least...You can't help but find Joy! when you listen/sing along/dance to Three Dog Night and Joy to the World.

Quotes About Writing

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. ~Catherine Drinker Bowen

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing. ~Melinda Haynes

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly. ~John D. MacDonald

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. ~Gloria Steinem

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ~Thomas Mann

Easy reading is damned hard writing. ~Anonymous

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. ~Somerset Maugham

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. ~E. L. Doctorow

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing. ~Ken MacLeod\

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. ~Robert A. Heinlein

Never throw up on an editor. ~Ellen Datlow

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. ~Stephen King

There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away. ~Will Shetterly

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned. ~Oscar Wilde

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter. ~Anonymous

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ~Ernest Hemingway

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. ~Gene Wolfe