Being Joyful Quotes

• Being joyful is our natural state of being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Joyful, Natural

  Twitter post from Jul 16, 2014

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• You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Men, Grieving

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• Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Being Happy, Gratitude, Men

  FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1960). “NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR”

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• The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

  Mark Nepo

  Keys, Knowing, Joy

  Mark Nepo (2012). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want By Being Present in the Life You Have”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

  Christopher Pike

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Joy attracts more joy. Happiness attracts more happiness. Peace attracts more peace. GRATITUDE attracts more GRATITUDE. Kindness attracts more kindness. Love attracts more love.
  Your job is an inside one. To change your world, all you have to do is change the way you feel inside. How easy is that?

  Rhonda Byrne

  Love, Inspirational, Change

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “Secret Daily Teachings”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness.

  Joel Osteen

  Life, Positive, Happiness

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• Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.

  Ray Bradbury

  Motivational, Work, Worry

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• What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.

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• Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you have to do, you do with play. I think a good way to conceive of sacred space is as a playground. If what you're doing seems like play, you are in it. But you can't play with my toys, you have to have your own. Your life should have yielded some. Older people play with life experiences and realizations or with thoughts they like to entertain. In my case, I have books I like to read that don't lead anywhere.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Time, Fun

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• The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.

  Caryll Houselander

  God, Jesus, Christian Inspirational

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• Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint.

  Lois Mailou Jones

  Art, Struggle, Color

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  Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "3 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Mood in 2 Minutes" by Daniela Tempesta, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2013.

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• Wherever I am, there is joy and laughter!

  Louise Hay

  Laughter, Joy

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Oct 20, 2013

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• Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Running, Hands

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

  Arundhati Roy

  Life, Sad, Romantic

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, p.24, Penguin Books India

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• Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Joy, Men And Women

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  Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.

  Julie Isphording

  Running, Long, Joy

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• I think people feel safer being sad than they do being joyful.

  Sark

  Thinking, People, Being Sad

  Source: www.shift-it-coach.com

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• A life of adventure is ours for the taking, whether we're seven or seventy. Life for the most part is what me make it. We have been given a responsibility to live it fully, joyfully, completely, and richly, in whatever span of time God grants us on this earth.

  Luci Swindoll

  Adventure, Responsibility, Earth

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• Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Joy, Honor, Pathways

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  Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

  Ann Voskamp

  Grateful, Be Grateful, Joyful

  Twitter post from Oct 9, 2014

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

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Leadership, Uplifting

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• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

  Marcel Proust

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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