Joyful Quotes - Page 16

• The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Heart, Life Is

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2015

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• Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.

  Ellen Gallagher

  Artist, People, Joy

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• Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

  Alexander Pope

  Oats, Hands, Agriculture

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• I think I am a very kind person. I think I'm joyful, but I could be kinder and I could be more joyful. I do believe peace is a state of grace, and not the absence of violence.

  Dave Matthews

  Believe, Thinking, Grace

  "Q&A with Dave Matthews ahead of his 'concert and conversation' with the Dalai Lama". Interview with Marian Liu, www.seattletimes.com. April 11, 2008.

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• Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.

  Sylvia Plath

  Joy, Shows, Enjoy

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.464, Anchor

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• The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting. The more joyful you are, the more Well-Being flows to you-and you get to choose the details of how it flows.

  Esther Hicks

  Attitude, Blessing, Law Of Attraction

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• Action that is inspired from aligned thought is joyful action. Action that is offered from a place of contridicted thought is hard work that is not satisfying and does not yield good results. When you really feel like jumping into action, that is a clear sign that your vibration is pure and you are not offering contridicting thoughts to your own desire. When you are having a hard time making yourself do something, or when the action you offer does not produce the results you are seeking, it is always because you are offering thoughts in opposition to your desire.

  Esther Hicks

  Hard Work, Hard Times, Offering

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• Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.

  Regina Brett

  Beautiful, Simplicity, God Never Blinks

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• 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.

  Colin Tipping

  Spiritual, Judging, Soul

  Colin Tipping (2011). “Radical Self-Forgiveness: The Direct Path to True Self-Acceptance (Large Print 16pt)”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is possible to be happy and joyful most of the time. You just have to look at little children and see their natural joy. You may say that little children are free and don't have anything to worry about, but you are free too! You are free to choose worry or to choose joy, and whatever you choose will attract exactly that. Worry attracts more worry. Joy attracts more joy!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Children, Worry, Joy

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.

  Alberto Manguel

  Morning, Night, Order

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.19, Vintage Canada

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• Daniel Nahmod's music is addictive and contagious... and is equally comfortable addressing your spirituality, your co-dependence and anger, your hungry stomach or your loving heart. His songs run the gamut from meditative to wise-ass to joyful to everything in between, and he is particularly wonderful working with children (and the young-at-heart). When CDs 4 and 5 come out, you can feel totally comfortable buying them unheard and unseen -- all of Daniel's music is amazing.

  Mel White

  Wise, Running, Song

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• Stay positive, joyful, and optimistic in your activism, even in the face of adversity. Understand that most people continue to consume animal products because they are unaware of the hidden cost - animal cruelty - not because they are bad or apathetic. Offer information, support, and resources in a friendly and supportive manner, as few people have begun their journey toward a compassionate lifestyle by being shamed or ridiculed. Turn anger and frustration into motivation to be as effective as possible.

  Nathan Runkle

  Motivation, Optimistic, Adversity

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• The spirit of the drum is something that you feel but cannot put your hands on,
  It does something to you from the inside out . . .
  It hits people in so many different ways.
  But the feeling is one that is satisfying and joyful.
  It is a feeling that makes you say to yourself, '
  I'm glad to be alive today! I'm glad to be part of this world!

  Babatunde Olatunji

  Hands, People, Feelings

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• ...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end... Man, it occurs to me, is a joyful, buying-and-selling piece of work. I have been wrong, dead wrong, when I've decried consumerism. Consumerism is what we are. It is, in a sense, a holy impulse. A human being is someone who joyfully goes in pursuit of things, brings them home, then immediately starts planning how to get more.

  George Saunders

  Home, Men, Pieces

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• 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.

  Arthur Golden

  Long, Feelings, Feeling Sad

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• The will is not merely assertive, aggressive, and controlling. There is the accepting will, yielding will, the dedicated will. You might say that there is a feminine polarity to the will – the willing surrender, the joyful acceptance of the other functions of the personality.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Acceptance, Personality, Might

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• Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world. And let us be joyful in the homecoming.

  George McGovern

  Inspirational, Dream, Country

  George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.

  Mother Teresa

  Happiness, Heart, Sunshine

  Mother Teresa (1985). “Mother Teresa: Contemplative in the Heart of the World”

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• 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

  Adriana Trigiani

  Regret, Sleep, Knowing

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• Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Live Life, People, Moments

  Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.162, Random House

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• Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.

  Josef Pieper

  Mean, Psychics, Joy

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• Seattle’s Moraine not only make Washington State proud, but also the whole American progressive music scene joyful. ... It’s simply an impressive dead on eleven song tour de force. ... GET THIS! Highly Recommended!

  Lee Henderson

  Song, Proud, Washington State

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• The problem is, you can't tell people these things. They'll think you're crazy. And I say to myself: What can I do with this life inside me? I'd like to give it ... to make a present of it ... to go up to people and tell them: You need to be joyful! You know? You have to play at being pirates ... to build cities of marble ... to laugh ... to set off firecrackers

  Roberto Arlt

  Crazy, Thinking, Play

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• 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

  Ani DiFranco

  Inspirational, Girl, Joy

  Song: Joyful Girl, Album: Dilate

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