Joyful Quotes - Page 18

• [Swiss Armi Man] was a super joyful film to go make. I mean, there was stuff that was, like, totally bananas. But it was kind of par for the course every day with that stuff.

  Paul Dano

  Mean, Men, Bananas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to me - what I accept, what is joyful, what is positive. I see my mission, in a way, as carrying that forward - not so much by preaching, but by embodiment.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Feel Good, Embodiment

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.

  Wendell Berry

  Regret, Fall, Bird

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Farming: A Hand Book”, p.68, Counterpoint Press

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• Yoga teaches us both to let go and to have exquisite awareness in every moment. We remember our essential spiritual nature and life becomes more joyful, meaningful, and carefree.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Meaningful, Spiritual

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• April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Crazy, Spring, Passion

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• As parents it is well to be aware of the tendency to equate energetic activity with contest. Our children's worth does not dependon their ability to trounce one another. And surely we can find ways of frolicking and being healthy and active together in some joyful, free way that is not an adversary relationship.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Sibling, Parent

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When literature is discovered,
  a revelation occurs: the joyful,
  exultant knowledge that
  anything can happen.

  Alberto Manguel

  Literature, Revelations, Anything Can Happen

  Alberto Manguel (1983). “Black water: the book of fantastic literature”, Three Rivers Press

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• When I'm creatively solving problems, I'm in my sweet spot, and nothing can take me out of that joyful present.

  Maria Semple

  Sweet, Problem, Spots

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I've stood in long lines, in the rain and under the sun, just to buy a pack of butter or a box of paper napkins. I've seen mothers running after the corpses of their martyred sons, oblivious to whether their headscarves or their chadors or their stockings and shoes were slipping off or not. I won't say any more. In the light of all this, how did you expect my poetry to be joyful or, as in my recent poem, to speak of love? Even so, more than half of my poetry is joyful and these are the products of the moments when I've felt happy.

  Simin Behbahani

  Mother, Running, Rain

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I look at my kids, who were born under a Black president, who hop around the living room naked and joyful, mimicking Simone Biles, and just think, Damn, they got some amazing role models of Black excellence.

  Emily Raboteau

  Kids, Thinking, Role Models

  Source: www.elle.com

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• O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness

  William Ellery Channing

  Blessing, Looks, May

  William Ellery Channing (1850). “Memoir: With Extracts from His Correspondence and Manuscripts”, p.144

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• If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions - freedom, growth and joy - will come quickly and easily into alignment. See your "career" as one of creating a joyful life experience. You are not a creator of things or a regurgitator of what someone else has created or a gatherer of stuff. You are a creator, and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. That is your mission. That is your quest. That is why you are here.

  Esther Hicks

  Creativity, Careers, Creating

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• How wonderful it is to be surprised by God’s call, to embrace his word, and to walk in the footsteps of Jesus... Your life will become richer and more joyful each day!

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Each Day, Wonderful

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• I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes. But I think it's very important to be able to see the funny side of life and its joyful dimension and not to take everything too tragically. I'd also say it's necessary for my ministry. A writer once said that angels can fly because they don't take themselves too seriously. Maybe we could also fly a bit if we didn't think we were so important.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Angel, Men, Thinking

  "Pope Benedict XVI: 'We Have a Positive Idea to Offer'". German television interview, www.dw.com. August 13, 2006.

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• There's going to be some joyful lifting for us if you will in terms of some of the tasks we have to do.

  Mike Tomlin

  Tasks, Term, Ifs

  "Credo from Tomlin: Let's have fun" by Ed Bouchette, www.post-gazette.com. January 27, 2009.

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• When I ask people to contemplate selflessness, the sometimes react as if I've asked them to put their house on the market or give away all their money. If there was a self that existed in the way we think, discovering selflessness would be like putting our house on the market. But in the Buddhist tradition, the discovery of selflessness is called "completely joyful." It's not called "the raw end of the deal," or "I'd rather go back to bed," or "This is scary and depressing."

  Sakyong Mipham

  Depressing, Buddhist, Thinking

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• The soul has no other wish than to have an unlimited number of fearless, joyful playmates on the journey home.

  Penney Peirce

  Home, Journey, Numbers

  Penney Peirce, Michael Bernard Beckwith (2011). “Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• In the Bible, shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight--a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural gifts fruitfully employed, a state of affairs that inspires joyful wonder as its Creator and Savior opens doors and welcomes the creatures in whom he delights. Shalom, in other words, is the way things ought to be.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Mean, Doors, Inspire

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• Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Powerful, Mean, Rivers

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• In a moment comes either death or joyful victory.
  [Lat., Horae
  Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

  Horace

  Victory, Moments, Fortune

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• Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.

  Nelson Mandela

  People, Where You Live

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• To fully thrive, we must not only eliminate the stressors but also actively seek joyful, loving, fulfilling lives that stimulate growth processes

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Growth, Process, Thrive

  Bruce H. Lipton (2015). “The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles”, p.186, Hay House, Inc

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• 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.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Patience, Looks, World

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.196, Faber & Faber

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• We pray for our enemies; we seek to persuade those who hate us without cause to live conformably to the goodly precepts of Christ, that they may become partakers with us of the joyful hope of blessings from God, the Lord of all.

  Justin Martyr

  Hate, Blessing, Enemy

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• The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Ideas, Sorrow

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