Pure Joy Quotes

• Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it...I have written because it fulfilled me. ... I did it for the pure joy of the things. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Motivational, Loving What You Do

  "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, December 1999.

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• I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

  Louise Bogan

  Happiness, Beauty, Encouragement

  Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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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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• I am a perfectionist but I know how to live life. When I'm working, it's 100%. When I'm with my friends, I put everything away and enjoy life. When I come home to my kids, it's pure joy and everything's worth it. Every time, I really focus 100 percent on one thing. I've learned how to juggle my life and I feel like now I have the perfect balance.

  Monique Lhuillier

  Life, Kids, Home

  "The designer making Rihanna, Scarlett and Gwyneth look good". Interview with Felicia Taylor, www.cnn.com. May 10, 2012.

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• Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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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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• 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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• Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

  Jack Kroll

  Artist, People, Joy

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• When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.

  Suze Orman

  Regret, Goal, Joy

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• Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

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• Today I will run for pure, absolute joy!

  Lopez Lomong

  Sports, Running, Joy

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• Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Happiness, Happy

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• You increase your joy by increasing the pure joy of others.

  Torkom Saraydarian

  Joy, Increase, Pure

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• Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Passion, Joy

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• The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.

  Robert Wyland

  Inspirational, Beach, Nature

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• For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.

  Antonio Damasio

  Ocean, Discovery, Joy

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• Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wisdom, Sadness, Joy

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 12, 2016

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• When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

  Brendan Fehr

  Dad, Joy, Realizing

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• Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Spring, Flower, Knowledge

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1972). “Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• So, I'm on Sesame Street, walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. Sesame Street is just a crazy great place to be.

  Feist

  Fun, Stupid, Crazy

  "Headed for the top". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.

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• A day to God is a thousand years,
  Men walk around with a thousand fears.
  The true joy of love brings a thousand tears,
  In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.

  RZA

  Love, God, Song

  Song: A Day To God Is 1000 Years

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• Find joy in the ordinary.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Your work is to go forth into this physical environment looking for things that are a vibrational match to joy, connecting to Source Energy, and then following with the inspired action.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Spiritual

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• There are two words that, when spoken, have the most unfathomable power to completely change your life. Two words which, when they pass your lips, will be the cause of bringing absolute joy and happiness to you. Two words that will create miracles in your life. Two words that will wipe out negativity. Two words that will bring you abundance in all things. Two words which, when uttered and sincerely felt, will summon all the forces and vibrations in the Universe to move all things for you. The only thing standing between you, happiness, and the life of your dreams is two words THANK YOU!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Self Improvement, Essentials

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.12, Amber-Allen Publishing

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