True joy is independence of circumstances - Choose to rejoice! — Andrew Wommack
Don’t let joy be an accident. Create it. — Tom Bilyeu
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. — Henri Nouwen
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
Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy. — Mother Teresa
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. — Carl Sandburg
Find what brings you joy and go there. — Jan Phillips
You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail. — Buffy Sainte-Marie
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
Choose To Live In Joy Quotes
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. — Joseph Campbell
Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy... Why not choose joy?... Why not live in joy? — Leo Buscaglia
What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy. — John Piper
Today i choose joy !
Today, I choose awareness. I choose to be aware of the beauty of life and living. I choose to be aware of the simple pleasures in life. I choose awareness of joy, awareness of peace, and awareness of love. — Iyanla Vanzant
We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy... It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love. — Henri Nouwen
Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living. — Alan Cohen
What Is Joy Quotes
Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand. — Ian Curtis
When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. — Voltaire
I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy. — Shane Koyczan
Whe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. — General Robert E. Lee
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. — Robert E. Lee
We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy. — Desmond Tutu
Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at dusk, was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated. — Terry Tempest Williams
My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay. — Franz Liszt
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy. — Vandana Shiva
Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful. — Ann Voskamp
Finding Joy Quotes
Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks--we will also find our path of authentic service in the world. — Parker J. Palmer
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace. — Teresa of Avila
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. — Joseph Campbell
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. — Kahlil Gibran
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. — Emily Dickinson
You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. — Helen Keller
In whatever sense this year is a new year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand with joy and gratitude. — Howard Thurman
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile. — Jennifer Garner
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. — Pearl S. Buck
No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened. — C. S. Lewis
Choosing Happiness Quotes
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. — Groucho Marx
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. — Ralph Marston
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha
You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy. — Philippe Starck
I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life. — Louise Hay
Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice — Gordon B. Hinckley
. . . success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you. — J. Willard Marriott
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. — Leo Buscaglia
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. — Ralph Marston
Being Joyful Quotes
Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy. — Le Corbusier
To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self.
By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss. — Adi Shankara
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. — Confucius
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. — Mary, Queen of Scots
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. — Erik Erikson
In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being. — Eckhart Tolle
You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else. — Alfred Adler
We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life. — Charlotte Mason
Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy. — Buddha
Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. — Milton H. Erickson
Simple Joy Quotes
Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy. — Francis of Assisi
Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water. — Sigurd F. Olson
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. — Robert Menzies
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. — Eleonora Duse
Prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trail as well as joy; finally, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus. — Therese of Lisieux
You can not have significance in this life if it is all about you. You get your significance, you find your joy in life through service and sacrifice - it's pure and simple. — Paul Tudor Jones
For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy. — Therese of Lisieux
True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for those that need your voice, passion, and time without expecting or wanting anything in return. — Deborah Barnes
The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting. — George Nelson
The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple. — Doris Janzen Longacre
Choose To Be Happy Quotes
The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a skill that you develop and a choice that you make. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. — Naval Ravikant
The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill set that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It’s just like building muscles. — Naval Ravikant
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. — Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy. — Joel Osteen
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be. — Michelle Yeoh
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life. — Jim Rohn
I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do. — Martin Seligman
I no longer try to be right; I choose to be happy. — Ric Elias
True Joy Quotes
It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic. — Cecilia Bartoli
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures. — Thomas Aquinas
Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist. — Lise Meitner
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. — Richard Bach
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own. — Nikos Kazantzakis
The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world. — Ann Voskamp
True joy of nature is when every drop of water shines like a pearl. — Anamika Mishra
This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round. — Farid al-Din Attar
The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown. — James Stewart
Joy Of Life Quotes
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness! — Leon Trotsky
The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless
When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching. — Marva Collins
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. — Tecumseh
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. — William Wordsworth
Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life. — Saint John Chrysostom
Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking. — Henri Nouwen
Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life. — Jerome Bruner
Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship. — Nachman of Breslov
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joyful Life Quotes
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. — Rabindranath Tagore
The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy. — Rabindranath Tagore
You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?' — Morgan Freeman
God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard. — Francis Chan
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. — Maxim Gorky
Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years. — Zoroaster
We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul's life, Love is simply creation's greatest joy. — Hafez
Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as far as I am concerned. But when those with me are fellow believers, how much greater that joy is, for we know that it's rekindled, one day in eternity. — James Stewart
The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. — David Steindl-Rast
Food is one of life's greatest joys yet we've reached this really sad point where we're turning food into the enemy, and something to be afraid of — Jamie Oliver
There is no heaven of glory bright, and no hell where sinners roast. Here and now is our day of torment! Here and now is our day of joy! Here and now is our opportunity! Choose ye this day, this hour, for no redeemer liveth! — Anton Szandor LaVey
The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice...it is a positive attitude we choose to express. It is not a gift delivered to our door each morning, nor does it come through the window. And it is certain that our circumstances are not the things that make us joyful. If we wait for them to get just right, we will never laugh again. — Charles R. Swindoll
You are free to think thoughts of worry or joy, and whatever you choose will attract the same kind back to you. Worry attracts worry. Joy attracts joy. — Rhonda Byrne
Scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy. — Natalie Angier
Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy. — Mary Lee Settle
We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both. — Angela Thomas
Every day is a miracle. No matter how bad my
circumstances, I have the freedom to choose my
attitude to life, even to find joy. Evil is not new.
It is up to us how we deal with both good and bad.
No one can take this power away from us. — Alice Herz-Sommer
I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. — Groucho Marx
There is no joy without hardship. If not for death, would we appreciate life? If not for hate, would we know the ultimate goal is love? At these moments you can either hold on to negativity and look for blame, or you can choose to heal and keep on loving. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Let`s choose each day and every day to keep an attitude of faith and joy and belief and compassion. — Charles R. Swindoll
We will never find joy in church membership when we are constantly seeking things our way. But paradoxically, we will find the greatest joy when we choose to be last. That's what Jesus meant when He said the last will be first. True joy means giving up our rights and preferences and serving everyone else. — Thom S. Rainer
We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers. — Barbara Johnson
Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something. — Ralph Marston
God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him. — William Barclay
If we wish to follow Christ closely, we cannot choose an easy, quiet life. It will be a demanding life, but full of joy. — Pope Francis
When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. — William Blake
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor. — Ralph Marston
In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves into a different matter altogether. — Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Hope strengthens. Fear kills[...] That simple adage is master of every situation, every choice. Each morning we wake up, we get to choose between hope and fear and apply one of those emotions to everything we do. Do we greet things that come our way with joy? Or suspicion? — Karen Marie Moning
There are two ways to look at life and the world. We can see the good or the bad, the beautiful or the ugly. Both are there, and what we focus on and choose to see is what brings us feelings of joy or feelings of despair. — Lloyd D. Newell
Each day brings its own colours to be chosen, mixed, pigments of joy, happy moments, smiles and laughter.... And which will you choose? For 'Life' is choice. — John McLeod
A warrior chooses a path with heart, any path with heart, and follows it; and then he rejoices and laughs. He knows because he sees that his life will be over altogether too soon. He sees that nothing is more important than anything else. — Carlos Castaneda
Today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. — Kevyn Aucoin
Do what you do for the sheer joy of it, Do what you choose,not what someone else chooses for you. — Neale Donald Walsch
I believe in the pure Surrealist joy of the man who, forewarned that all others before him have failed, refused to admit defeat, sets off from watever point he chooses, along any other pat save a reasonable one, and arrives wherever he can. — Andre Breton
People can be happy while they are going through great pain and adversity. There's no pleasure evident in their external lives yet they are content on the inside. And conversely, tons of people are surrounded by pleasure (fast cars, nice homes, great clothes) but there is no joy within. So choose to be happy. — Robin Sharma
I am totally free to choose thoughts of joy. It is my Divine right to do so. — Louise Hay
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, in the end, Thy will be done. All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened. — C. S. Lewis
Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness - that happiness is a choice you make. — Gabrielle Bernstein
Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing. — Oswald Chambers
For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering. — Billy Porter
Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos. — Marianne Williamson
Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit; and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have. — Owen Feltham
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