Life would be more joyous if we did not take it seriously---

I look on life as a joyous adventure.

— Ernie Harwell

As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha.…

— Susan Jeffers

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity...

— John Muir

“Life's a dog and then you die? No no. Life is a joyous dance through daffodils beneath cerulean blue skies and then, then what?…

— Edward Abbey

[I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their…

— Brené Brown

Oh, I wonder if I will ever feel the burst of birth-joy, that knowing that the indescribable, joyous thing that has wooed and wond…

— Emily Carr

Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely…

— Jason Alexander

There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate because all…

— Frederick Lenz

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character,…

— Samuel George Morton

You can learn a lesson the first time, when it's presented in a package that is joyous - or at least palatable. But if…

— Marianne Williamson

Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and…

— Edgar Wilson Nye

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative…

— Lawren Harris

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

— Eckhart Tolle

The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical…

— Richard Baxter