Quotes & Sayings About Joyfulness
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To bear adversity with meek submission to the will of God; to endure chastisement with all long-suffering and joyfulness; to appear cheerful amid surrounding gloom, hopeful amidst desponding circumstances, happy in God when there is nothing else to make us happy; he who does this has indeed made great advances in the divine life. — John Angell James

Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere. — Jonathan D. Spence

I'm so happy that James Baraz's AWAKENING JOY class is now available in book form. His class has been helpful to thousands of people. I plan to give it to all my clients who are struggling with creating a life of meaning and happiness. Joyfulness is our birthright. This book shows you how to reclaim it. — M.J. Ryan

Joy is found in the simple and ordinary things of life: the smile of a newborn baby, the kiss from a sweet new puppy, and the warm sunshine on a spring day. — Marie Cornelio

If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness and peacefulness. — Jaggi Vasudev

So when joy arises at the level of your mind and not just your senses, you can maintain a deep sense of satisfaction for a much longer period of time - even for twenty-four hours. "So I always say to people, you have to pay more attention to the mental level of joy and happiness. Not just physical pleasure, but satisfaction at the level of mind. This is true joyfulness. When you are joyful and happy at the mental level, physical pain doesn't matter very much. But if there is no joy or happiness at the mental level, too much worrying, too much fear, then even physical comforts and pleasure will not soothe your mental discomfort." "Many — Dalai Lama XIV

She felt trapped, but she didn't have to. The world is wide open and ready, waiting for us to escape this bubble and join it. — C.M. Stunich

Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin. — Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there — Friedrich Nietzsche

On more practical level, sometimes joyfulness
could be more valuable than fighting for truth. — Toba Beta

An appreciating heart radiates happiness
Gratitude fills your life with bliss and joyfulness. — Debasish Mridha

When you focus and accept the current moment with love, faith, and joyfulness, you are practicing mindfulness. That is better than controlling the universe. — Debasish Mridha

She wasn't just a faithful friend, she was the closest thing to heaven I allowed myself to know. Through her I received joy in my heart and began to love others. — Jennifer Skiff

Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Those who wish to sing always find a song. — Swedish Proverb

Letting go of sorrow gives you enough strength to carry happiness.
Letting go of anger gives you enough strength to carry kindness.
Letting go of fear gives you enough strength to carry hopefulness.
Letting go of resentment gives you enough strength to carry gratefulness.
Letting go of disappointment gives you enough strength to carry joyfulness.
Letting go of avarice gives you enough strength to carry contentedness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Unfulfilled expectations bring unhappiness. Comparisons fill life with meanness. Avoid both to fill life with joyfulness. — Debasish Mridha

Life is a daring adventure.I am enjoying every bit of the joyful journey. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your smile is the twinkle of happiness.
Your heart is the source of kindness.
Your presence is the source of joyfulness.
Your thoughts are symbols of greatness. — Debasish Mridha

Happiness is an inner perception, inner joyfulness. We are happy when we express our kindness unconditionally. We are happy when we love some one unconditionally. By becoming the source of happiness for some one we become happy. Happiness is the purpose of every creation. — Debasish Mridha

We are all participants in the marvelous. — James Broughton

The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation. — Jaggi Vasudev

Let the gladness of your soul blossom. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs? — Mary Oliver

As a being and life form, all of mankind must seek the absolute sunshine of being. To do otherwise is to deny the essence of life; which is growth in body mind and soul. These in turn reflects Self love. — Auliq Ice

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

You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness. — Philip Sidney

Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being. — Deepak Chopra

Only people, especially Anglo-Saxons, are so afraid lest joyfulness may somehow be reprehensible that they will never admit it as a lawful and laudable end in itself. — Arnold Bennett

You felt like a beast, but you weren't simply one. Once you accepted the pregnancy was yours to bear, you did become vigilant. They were to grow. You were to tend them. But you were mystified by other women's joyfulness at your condition. You remembered overhearing, as a girl, their talk of how a young woman would hear a coo one day that would turn her soft and make her want a baby. Such a thing had never happened to you. — Ronlyn Domingue

Truth's nakedness is not concerned with whom it strikes - painfully, or with pleasure; responding appropriately to its ingenuous temperament, however, rewards perceptions of unbiased transparency. — T.F. Hodge

Success is a way of life, which progressively expands your joyfulness, happiness, and fulfillment. — Debasish Mridha

In essence, joy is the quiet confidence that everything will work out right. The best part of being filled with joy is that it's contagious. Your joy overflows. You can't keep it to yourself. It spills over to touch other lives in such a marvelous way. People around you want to be in your company. You lift their spirits! — Dana Arcuri

True joy cannot be bought with money or found in lavish things. It's a feeling deep within the heart. — Marie Cornelio

He advocated that all who follow Jesus are priests, not just the official clergy. Much of what he said made sense, as did his kind manner. But why was he here now? Had this persecuted recluse emerged just to speak to me? — David Holdsworth

Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!
Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow!
Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Grateful and appreciating hearts radiate happiness. Gratitude and thankfulness fill life with joyfulness. — Debasish Mridha

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. — Orison Swett Marden

It's urgent-love.
It's urgent- a boat upon the sea.
It's urgent to destroy certain words,
hate, solitude, and cruelty,
some mornings,
many swords.
It's urgent to invent a joyfulness,
multiply kisses and cornfields,
discover roses and rivers
and glistening mornings- it's urgent.
Silence and an impure light fall upon our shoulders till they ache.
It's urgent- love, it's urgent
to endure. — Eugenio De Andrade

I don't remember now who took the photo of us, but I've had it in my room for years. We're leaning out of our windows and we're laughing at each other with joyfulness purer than anything to do with the polite smiling you get used to doing when you get older. The photo has the kind of proper smiles that happen when you're looking straight into the face of someone who's been your best friend for a long time. — Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

He was my drummer. My guy. Mine. I bit my lip to hold back a grin. — Wendy Higgins

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist? — Eugene Manlove Rhodes

I'm actually very humbled listening to His Holiness,' the Archbishop said, 'because I've frequently mentioned to people the fact of his serenity and his calm and joyfulness. We would probably have said 'in spite of' the adversity, but it seems like he's saying 'because of' the adversity that this has evolved for him. — Desmond Tutu

If you feel all damp and lonely like a mushroom, find the thick, creamy soup of joyfulness and just dive into it in order to make life tastier — Munia Khan

The man [who] is greatest and most blessed and joyful [is one] whose life most closely approaches the pattern of Christ. This has nothing to do with earthly wealth, power, or prestige. The only true test of greatness, blessedness, joyfulness is how close can a life come to being like the Master, Jesus Christ. He is the right way, the full truth, and the abundant life. — Ezra Taft Benson

Peace is a child's beautiful smile and a flower's freshness
Peace is an inner perception of joyfulness and happiness. — Debasish Mridha

Joy cannot be confused with the mere absence sorrow, misinterpreted as experiencing minimal despair, or misunderstood as living without crippling trepidation. Bliss necessarily encompasses uncompromising acceptance of life's defining permutations. Emotional harmony necessitates beholding the pleasant and unpleasant exigencies of life while expressing unstinting appreciation for the ordinary and the extraordinary events in our lives. Joyfulness transcends the variations in physical and emotional demands exerted upon us. Elation for life allows us to rise above environmental determinates and associated stresses that might otherwise vex our souls including death and other sorrowful events. — Kilroy J. Oldster

A little love, a little kindness,
a little hope, a little joyfulness,
a little tolerance, a little gratefulness,
brings harmony and creates peacefulness. — Debasish Mridha

When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in. — Andrea Riseborough

Her unconditional love and joyfulness had reminded us that there was still good in the world. From a spiritual perspective, dogs get it so right (except for the annoying yappers, which get nothing right). — Boyd Varty

If you want to really know higher dimensions of life, there needs to be a constant sense of peacefulness and joyfulness within you — Jaggi Vasudev

Today, the defining skills of the previous era - the "left brain" capabilities that powered the Information Age - are necessary but no longer sufficient. And the capabilities we once disdained or thought frivolous - the "right-brain" qualities of inventiveness, empathy, joyfulness, and meaning - increasingly will determine who flourishes and who flounders. — Daniel H. Pink

I was also startled by the fact that research participants consistently described both joyfulness and gratitude as spiritual practices that were bound to a belief in human connectedness and a power greater than us. — Brene Brown