Joyful Quotations

The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.

Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.

Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.

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

In coaching, you don't ever really have that joyful fun, but there's no question that it's enjoyable.

I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times.

There's no destination. The journey is all that there is, and it can be very, very joyful.

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.

Acceptance is different than apathy. It is important to strive to be your best self, your healthiest, most productive, joyful self. But that is going to be a different answer to everyone.

The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time.

I am compelled to continuously see the bright side. It is in my DNA. My kids look at me and say: 'Mom, you're so happy!' And I do feel happy. I feel joyful inside. I can't explain it.

Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.

We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.

My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri female state legislator to have a baby while in office, having heath care for myself and my son gave me some needed peace of mind.

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.

We always think, 'Well, for a person who's blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight is restored to them.' Now, this may be true for blind people who lost their vision at a later age. It's rarely true for people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age.

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

There is no day more joyful in my life than when I see all my family around me. That's the best it gets.

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.

I have had a full and joyful and I hope productive life, and I intend to have other chapters that will meet those same standards,

(Lee is) a joyful raconteur, a woman with grit, grace and humor. Lee is the desert's lover. Her voice is a torch in the wilderness.

I felt joyful at the public's criticism. People come to the country for free speech. It's what America is all about,

He's basically a very optimistic, joyful type of guy who really wants to enjoy life, ... Peter Pan character.

Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time (full) of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

I went to the legislative hearings, and I was struck by how the conversation was primarily about the costs to employers, and there was no discussion of women's health. I knew that for some women it's a very joyful time, and for others it's very complicated.

I wish Roger absolutely well. But I can't imagine doing more than a one-off with him and the other guys at this point. It's been such a joyful experience working with the team I have now; nothing could make me happier than the situation I'm in. I'm extremely lucky.

Kennedy knows how to use traditional poetic forms to give us both joyful and truthful observations about the human condition. His sketches of people and experiences combine playful irreverence with language full of sound and rhythm, and refreshing bites of irony.

Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see

Being joyful is our natural state of being.

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

One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.

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

Those whose minds are pleased by the Praises of the Lord, Har, Har, are joyful in the palaces of their own homes. Their mouths savor all the sweet delicacies when they sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

It was a joy and privilege to stand with so many people who support this woman and her cause. Even in a steady rain with umbrellas in one hand and candles in the other, Alaskans came together to show compassion and concern for a fellow citizen from afar. If only every day we would join together and support one another, perhaps we wouldn't need to be at war. Compassion and kindness can be contagious; wouldn't that be a joyful epidemic to witness?

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 meTo live each day with zest . . .To daily grow and try to beMy highest and my best!I have the opportunityOnce more to right some wrongs,To pray for peace, to plant a tree,And sing more joyful songs!

With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.

A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful

A joyful state of mind naturally has its good effects on the body which remains healthy.

Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.

Right now, we're still in the grind of it. You've got to keep that edge to you. OK, yeah, (it's) a happy, joyful occasion,

There's something quite joyful about doing comedy which doesn't really need much analysis. I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.

Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.

I know you are a woman of sorrowful spirit, yet be comforted, though you sorrows be great for you husband going out of the world, yet your pains shall be the less in bringing your child into the world; you shall be a joyful mother, though you be a sad widow; God hath many mercies in store for you; the prayer of a dying husband for you, will not be lost.

If people can take part in the whole day, it would really make it more joyful to us. Through all this, people have so rallied behind us that I don't want to forget them.

I hope the departue is joyful and I hope never to return.

Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.

Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, ''Joy is not in things, it is in us.''

Awake, my soul, and with the sun / Thy daily stage of duty run; / Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise, / To pay thy morning sacrifice.

The fundamental problem is this is not a consensus constitution, and one part of the country has massively rejected it. This was not a joyful vote. It was a pragmatic vote to continue the process.

See your later years as becoming your treasure years. Sit quietly and think of all the times you were joyful, and let your body feel this joy.

The Divine Spirit does not reside in any except the joyful heart

ALWAYS PRACTICE the Art of Peace in a vibrant and joyful manner.

This is a joyful event for all of Denmark. The government sends its best wishes for the future of the whole family.

This is a great loss to all of us. Throughout his career, especially in the past 10 years, Gianni Versace has left his mark on our times, with his vitality and joyful way of being.

The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

It's a joyful day and a painful day -- joyful because we brought the boys home, and painful that more than 1,000 of our dear sons didn't return,

What the flamingo teaches a child, at that subliminal level where animal encounters work, is that gravity is not just a limitation, but also a possible partner in an intriguing, potentially joyful game.

We witnessed the very worst in reaction to what had been a joyful occasion, ... The behavior was criminal and unacceptable. And unfortunately, most of those responsible appeared to be students.

How joyful the Israelis are these days, ... The only winners are our enemies.

I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.

Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.

Being happy in God is the way we glorify Him. This is the reason we were created. Delighting in God is not a mere preference or option of life; it is our joyful duty and should be the single passion of our lives.

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

I`m the tortoise in the race, but I`m a joyful tortoise.

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

My childhood was happy, joyful but very difficult.

Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

We should be so joyful from God's grace that others would respond by saying, 'I wish I had your God.

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

Doing actual comedic material is just about the most joyful endeavor ever. That's the truth. The only time it's not funny is when business gets in the way.

The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.

The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.

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

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations.

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.

Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

Right now is the time for you to visualize and create your future. Make it as healthy and bright and joyful as you can. It's your life, and you're going to live it.

Being joyful is a choice.

I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.

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

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

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.