Joyful Quotes

• This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.

  Donald Cargill

  Earth, Saws, Pilgrimage

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• Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give! This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest . . . To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best! I have the opportunity Once more to right some wrongs, To pray for peace, to plant a tree, And sing more joyful songs!

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Life, New Year

  William Arthur Ward, “Another Fresh New Year”

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• A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart.

  Maya Angelou

  Grateful, Heart, Spirit

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• Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Music, Expression, Perfect

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• This day and your life are God's gift to you - so give thanks and be joyful always.

  James M. Beggs

  Giving, Eulogy, Thanks

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• May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Heart, May

  Song: Forever Young

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• The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

  M. Scott Peck

  Life, Happiness, God

  "The Enlightened Savage : Using Primal Instincts for Personal & Business Success". Book by Anthony Hernandez (p. 147), 2006.

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• Sometimes you have to smile by faith. If you'll smile by faith, soon the joy will follow.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Smile, Faith

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Giving, Joy

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Go forward with joyful confidence.

  George Eliot

  Anticipation

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• The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.

  Gloria Steinem

  Life, Healing, Journey

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.128, Open Road Media

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• I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

  John Templeton

  Spiritual, Optimistic, Focus

  "Money Not the End Goal for Successful Men". Book by Andrew Leckey, articles.chicagotribune.com. July 20, 2008.

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• The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice...it is a positive attitude we choose to express. It is not a gift delivered to our door each morning, nor does it come through the window. And it is certain that our circumstances are not the things that make us joyful. If we wait for them to get just right, we will never laugh again.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Morning, Attitude, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.30, Thomas Nelson

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• The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Thankful, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.

  Kara Goucher

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

  Gilbert Parker

  Beautiful, Mean, Mind

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, 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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• There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

  Khalil Gibran

  Happiness, Famous Inspirational, Giving

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspiring, New Year, Song

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• In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

  Solomon

  Adversity, Eugenics, Prosperity

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• I think making a good film shot is joyful.

  William Shatner

  Thinking, Film, Shots

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• Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Life, Positive, Happiness

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• It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.

  Larry King

  People, Giving, Want

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• When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Integrity, Moving

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.106, Lulu.com

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