Joyful Life Quotes

When our mind is calm, we're better able to find peace of mind and live a joyful life. ~ Dalai Lama

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

Connecting with the wilderness allows us to live in the flow of a meaningful, joyful life. Embracing this state of connectedness or oneness with other living beings including animals, as opposed to feeling an "otherness" or "separateness" brings a sense of harmony and enables us to be at peace with oneself and the world. ~ Sylvia Dolson

Love can play destructive games; one day overwhelming you with joy and euphoria and the next, destroying your life. ~ R.J. Intindola

One of the most profound changes in my life happened when I got my head around the relationship between gratitude and joy. I always thought that joyful people were grateful people. I mean, why wouldn't they be? They have all of that goodness to be grateful for. But after spending countless hours collecting stories about joy and gratitude, three powerful patterns emerged: Without exception, every person I interviewed who described living a joyful life or who described themselves as joyful, actively practiced gratitude and attributed their joyfulness to their gratitude practice. Both joy and gratitude were described as spiritual practices that were bound to a belief in human interconnectedness and a power greater than us. People were quick to point out the differences between happiness and joy as the difference between a human emotion that's connected to circumstances and a spiritual way of engaging with the world that's connected to practicing gratitude. ~ Brene Brown

Live the life that you want your children to live. If you want your children to be patient, show them what patience looks like. If you want joyful children, seek God to live a joyful life yourself. ~ Genny Monchamp

Twinkle lights are the perfect metaphor for joy. Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy because we're too busy chasing down extraordinary moments. Other times we're so afraid of the dark that we don't dare let ourselves enjoy the light. A joyful life is not a floodlight of joy. That would eventually become unbearable. I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith. ~ Brene Brown

Be joyful and expect a great future. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful. ~ Viggo Mortensen

My daddy. . . . . used to say, 'Honey, find something you love to do and then figure out a way to get paid for it.' He understood that where your true passion is, there your joy is also. And a joyful life is a truly successful life. Perhaps not by the world's standards, but whose life is it anyway? ~ Kathie Lee Gifford

A joyful heart is an endless flowing stream. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Though every man naturally abhorreth sorrow, and loves the most merry and joyful life; yet few do love the way to joy, or will endure the pains by which it is obtained; they will take the next that comes to hand, and content themselves with earthly pleasures, rather than they will ascend to heaven to seek it ;l and yet when all is done, they must have it there, or be without it (491). ~ Richard Baxter

Being creative, joyful, happy, and beloved are the ultimate purposes of a profound life. ~ Debasish Mridha

A successful person is one who is living a joyful life with the hand he or she was dealt. ~ Ron,Hall

Live a joyful life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm blessed with the fact that I'm a fighter. I've always known life was meant to be joyful. ~ Pattie Boyd

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Two words: Love leads. Listen to that ring of love within. If we follow that leading of love we'll be guaranteed an adventurous, positive, joyful life. ~ Richard Bach

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

To wake up each morning is a blessed gift. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

UNSOPHISTICATED

I sing my merry song
at first blush of day
this external peace
tendered by the soft shade
of tidy clouds
idly crossing places,
a fresh note
returns to mind:
I am unsophisticated at heart. ~ Tara Estacaan

God help me, how Tolstoy sweats over drying up people's sources of life, of wild and joyful life, drying them up and making the world fat with the love of God and everyman ... But the man is old, after all, his fountains of life run dry, without a trace remaining of human affections ... Only someone who has become slow and watertight with old age, satiated and hardened with pleasure, will go to youth and say, Renounce! ... And yet the youth renounces nothing, but sins royally for forty years. Such is the course of nature! ~ Knut Hamsun

Life is for memories, full of fun,
with friends, families and joyful sun. ~ Debasish Mridha

In all things, may the victory come to us while the glory goes to God. We can't handle the glory ... It only brings pride to us! We can handle the victory ... It brings a joyful life! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Deliberately guiding your thoughts is the key to a joyful life, but a desire to feel joy is the best plan of all ... because in the reaching for joy, you find the thoughts that attract the wonderful life you desire. ~ Esther Hicks

Life is less a burden without an absolute quest for material possessions ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A joyful life is one filled with good people, good work and good books." – DK Raymer ~ D.K. Raymer

No matter wherever you are,
share your joy to make this world joyful and better. ~ Debasish Mridha

The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life. ~ Dalai Lama XIV

Make everyday a positive day
Make it joyful and beautiful in everyway ~ Debasish Mridha

We ought to live life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Macrobiotic living is the process of changing ourselves so that we can eat anything we like without fear of becoming ill; it enables us to live a joyful life during which we can achieve anything we choose. ~ George Ohsawa

Happiness is the most magical thing in this world the amount of which remains the same, even after distributing it amongst innumerable unhappy people. ~ Munia Khan

Appreciate the sacred life you have, it is a gift from God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Money is definitely needed, but how much money do we really need? If we would change our idea of a successful life to a joyful life, we would find our need for money would dramatically decrease. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

We are not proponents of long life. We are proponents of joyful life, and when you find yourself in joy, the longevity usually follows. We do not count the success of a life by its length; we count it by its joy. - ABRAHAM ~ Christiane Northrup

A joyful life is when we listen to the desires of our heart and mind, and we never forget to have a chuckle or two, a day. ~ Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

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. ~ Abraham Hicks

I am not suggesting that everything bad that happens to us is sent directly by a knowing hand - cooked up specially for our personal development. Nor do I mean that by using the stuff of life as grist for the mill you will learn what you need to learn and move on into a problem-free world. And I also don't recommend courting drama and disaster so that you can be broken open to the truth. A catastrophe is not a sign that God has singled you out for greatness. What I do mean is that you can use anything - everything - as a wake-up call; you can find a treasure trove of information about yourself and the world in the big trials and the little annoyances of daily life. If you turn around and face yourself in times of loss and pain, you will be given the key to a more truthful - and therefore a more joyful - life. ~ Elizabeth Lesser

I brought you here tonight to remind you of when we were happy. When we were inseparable, best friends and more. But - [...] "What?" I asked. "Please, tell me. I promise I'm okay." [...] "But what if this is the last time we ever get to do this?" [...] "Then we had tonight. We've had this memory. We've had this cherished moment." [...] "I used to know a boy, a boy I loved with my whole heart, who lived for a single moment. Who told me that a single moment could change the world. It could change someone's life. That one moment could make someone's life, in that brief second, infinitely better or infinitely worse." [...] "This, tonight, being at this creek with you again, … it has made my life infinitely better. This moment, given to me by you, I will remember always. I will take it with me to … wherever I go. ~ Tillie Cole

Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices. ~ Sallust

TEN UNIVERSAL VALUES

SHOW RESPECT TO OTHERS
each person has a special gift
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SHARE WHAT YOU HAVE
giving makes you richer
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KNOW WHO YOU ARE
you are a reflection on your family
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ACCEPT WHAT LIFE BRINGS
you cannot control many things
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HAVE PATIENCE
some things cannot be rushed
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LIVE CAREFULLY
what you do will come back to you
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TAKE CARE OF OTHERS
you cannot live without them
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HONOR YOUR ELDER
they show you the way in life
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PRAY FOR GUIDANCE
many things are not known
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SEE CONNECTIONS
all things are related
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{Taken from the Alaska Native Knowledge Network} ~ Alaska Native Heritage Center

Life itself today has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution. In this new projection, the best-known formulas and objects become displaced, fantastic, familiar-unfamiliar. This is why it is so logical for literature today to be drawn to the fantastic plot, or to an amalgam of reality and fantasy. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

In the bigger scheme of things, we are two pawns... waiting for life to make its move.
#Fatalist ~ Saru Singhal

She woke up one day in her drooping mattress with the blessed resolve one only finds at the bottom of a hole out of which they're willing to climb. She put on her old shoes, but they felt new. Then she went and bought a badass multivitamin and decided to change her life. ~ Susan Duty

What happened yesterday, or last week, or ten years ago … those things aren't important. What really matters is now, here, today, tomorrow, next year. Some people fall in love at first sight and stay together for ever, other people marry their childhood sweetheart and end up in the divorce courts. You can't predict life, Jonah, you can only truly try to make the best of whatever it throws at you.´ ~ Josie Silver

The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

If there's one thing that I've repeatedly and rather foolishly forgotten to schedule into my life it is to create times where it's not scheduled. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In real life, my parents pretty much approved of all my boyfriends. I guess I was doing something wrong. I should have been more rebellious. ~ Lindsay Pulsipher

You can change anything you want to change, and you can do it very fast. That's another satanic suckerpunch - that it takes years and years and eons of eternity to repent. It takes exactly as long to repent as it takes you to say, 'I'll change' - and mean it. . . . You may well spend - indeed you had better spend - the rest of your life proving your repentance by its permanence. But change, growth, renewal, and repentance can come for you as instantaneously as for Alma and the sons of Mosiah. ~ Robert Reynolds

The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters. ~ Vikram Seth

Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty is nothing but freedom. And that total surrender is obedience. If I belong to God, if I belong to Christ, then he must be able to use me. That is obedience. Then we give wholehearted service to the poor. That is service. They complete each other. That is our life. ~ Mother Teresa

Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again ~ George MacDonald

Maybe this isn't the right thing to say, but I want you to know: When you ran for the stage, I've never been so proud of you in all my life. You've always been beautiful; you've always been talented. And now I know that your moral compass is perfectly aligned, that you see clearly when things are wrong, and you do everything you can to stop it. As a father, I can't ask for more. I love you America. And I'm so so proud. ~ Kiera Cass

A rumor started a reputation that other people believed in and reacted to. And sometimes a rumor has a snowball effect. A rumor, is just the beginning. ~ Jay Asher

She took a shaky swallow of wine. "She didn't know me. When we were face-to-face again, and she looked right at me. She didn't know me."
"Did that hurt you?"
"No. I don't know. I couldn't think. I just know that for a minute I was nothing again. Like they - she - took everything from me. Roarke, my badge, my life, myself. For a minute it was just gone because she was there. I can't be nothing again."
"You could never be nothing." Roarke spoke in a voice of barely controlled rage. "You're what you made yourself against the impossible. Even when you were helpless they couldn't destroy what you are. You're a miracle. You're my miracle, and you'll never be anything else. ~ J.D. Robb

Man must cast out of himself everything which separates him from God. He must will to live the divine life, and he must rise above all moral temptations; he must forsake every course of action that is not in accord with his highest ideals. ~ Wallace D. Wattles

Be stimulated to become significant. This might be your back-slap moment. New-born babies born with weak signs of life are given a slap on the back to "stimulate" them. It is a knock to wake them up to the reality that they must now take charge. In this world, they have to do their own breathing and their own eating otherwise they will not survive. It's the same in your adulthood and your quest for success, you must take charge because no one will wake up every day to do things for you and make a success out of a life of excuses and laziness. ~ Archibald Marwizi

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself. ~ Mason Cooley

For many people, life is full of pain, suffering. It doesn't consist of clear blue skies or fresh green grass that's always greener on the other side. It's filled with hardships, grief, betrayal, and death.
These things define the human condition.
They define the sort of person an individual grows up to be, once those tribulations have, for the most part, ended.
But what truly defines you isn't the fact that you have seen death, known the feeling of betrayal by someone you trust, or watched as something you loved was ripped out of your hands.
What truly defines you is the way you reacted. ~ Tiana Dalichov

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life. ~ Richard Branson

As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable "something else," but now it was the opposite. Here, in the circle of Akiva's presence, even as they spoke of war and siege and enduring enmity, she felt herself being drawn into the warm absoluteness and rightness of him, like he was both place and person and, contrary to all reason, exactly where she was supposed to be. ~ Laini Taylor

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. ~ Mitch Albom

Most people's greatest regret is not living the life they knew they could live. ~ Todd Stocker

Because, no matter how bad her situation, she didn't want to be deprived of herself, she wanted to be herself. She thought she'd incur serious punishment and even risk dying if she took too much pleasure in life. So she protected herself from death by living less, consuming so little of her life that she'd never run out. This savings have her a little security since you can't fall farther than the ground. Did she feel she was living for nothing? I'm not sure, but I don't think so. Only once did she ask a tragic question: who am I? It frightened her so much that she completely stopped thinking.

She sometimes on payday bought herself a rose. ~ Clarice Lispector

I thought your life was like this because you were new, but it's always gonna be like this, isn't it? You'll always have to answer to people."
"So it would seem," I agreed. "Life isn't a fairy tale,Duncan."
"And you know what they say," Willa chimed in. "Mo' money, mo' problems."
"Well,that was embarrassing to hear you say that, so I'm good. ~ Amanda Hocking

James Remar is a student of life. ~ James Remar

There's no way that you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes. ~ Charlie Munger

We must buy jewelry; it identifies us with our tribe, just as body piercing identifies those of a different tribe. ~ Paulo Coelho