Joyful Quotes
What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!
At the soul level, we get precisely what we need in our lives for our spiritual growth. How we judge what we get determines whether we experience life as painful or joyful.
Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.
When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.
A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.
Even when it feels as if we are being crushed by earthly troubles, we can remain joyful. If we keep our focus on God, our spirit cannot be trampled.
The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.
There is no day more joyful in my life than when I see all my family around me. That's the best it gets.
One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful.
Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?
One of many joyful moments with BB King was him letting me play 'Lucille.' ...The thrill will never be gone.
I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.
Other people's children's birthday parties are the most joyful events you will ever resent having to attend.
It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.
To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.
The beauty of self realization lies in secretly working out within you everything that is virtuous, that is beautiful, that is joyful.
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
See your later years as becoming your treasure years. Sit quietly and think of all the times you were joyful, and let your body feel this joy.
I think it would be great if more adults were able to maintain that joyful creativity that we all experience as children.
I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.
I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful
I was like, wait a minute. When I hear my sisters' names, I want to have a joyful feeling in my heart about it.
Dogs are a gift to mankind. They are happy and joyful and loyal by nature. They are pure, positive energy and teach by example. That is all that's required of them.
i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world
So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world, and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance of grace.
Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.
Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.
I think it's really hard to be joyful. I work hard at it. I always feel like it's a choice. You can be joyful or you can be depressed, and there just doesn't seem to be any future in depression.
When you make a record and have to go out on tour for it, you have to go out on tour for it. Whether it's going to be joyful or not, you have to do it.
I felt like I was literally losing myself as being the joyful, spiritual, passionate, exciting woman that I naturally had been.
The true creator-self is a light at heart and free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.
But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.
We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.
Gratitude is the richest, most joyful feeling humans are privileged to experience.
Being a joyful vegan is the best way I know to contribute to the happiness of others, ultimately ensuring our own happiness.
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
When I'm creatively solving problems, I'm in my sweet spot, and nothing can take me out of that joyful present.
