choose joy

Copyright 2017 by R.A. Robbins

 “Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. —Henri Nouwen”

We need joy

Sunrise from the Porch
Copyright 2018 by R.A. Robbins

“We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.”–Maya Angelou

Joy is increased

Copyright 2016 by R.A. Robbins

“Joy is increased by spreading it to others.”Robert Murray McCheyne

Follow your joy

Copyright 2017 by R.A. Robbins

 “Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it’s meant to take you.”Jonathan Groff

If you carry joy in your heart…

Morning Flight
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“If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.”Carlos Santana

Find Joy in Everything

Copyright 2017 by R.A. Robbins

“Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.”

Chuck Palahniuk


The Sign of the Presence of God

Copyright 2017 by R.A. Robbins

“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.” 
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The Real Disabilities

Copyright 2017 by R.A. Robbins

“Part of the problem with the word ‘disabilities’ is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can’t feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren’t able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.” 
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

A River Moving in You

Copyright 2017 by R.A. Robbins

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ― Rumi

Joy in the Journey

Copyright 2016 by R.A. Robbins

“Let your joy be in your journey—not in some distant goal.”Tim Cook