Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"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."
Joyful quotes
Joyful
82 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Deepak Chopra
Author, Speaker
"Being joyful is our natural state of being."
John Muir
Naturalist, Writer
"Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm."
Louise Hay
Author, Motivational Speaker
"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."
Oprah Winfrey
Television host, producer, philanthropist
"When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen"
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"God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful."
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"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."
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"Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company."
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"Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope."
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"Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?"
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"The essence of all health begins through joyful living."
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"Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal."
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"When you make a record and have to go out on tour for it, you have to go out on tour for it. Whether it's going to be joyful or not, you have to do it."
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"Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted."
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"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."
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"Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy."
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"Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful."
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"Working with Roman Polanski is funny. It's like anything in life - someone warns you that something's going to be amazing or difficult or awful, and you say, "I can do that. I can cope with that." And then when you're in the middle of it, it may be joyful or tricky, but it's never difficult in the way you think it's going to be difficult."
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"Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice"
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"Joyful is the accumulation of good work."
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"Go forward with joyful confidence."
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"Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man."
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"The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light."
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