Joyful Quotes

418 quotes by 330 authors

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing. — Martha Beck
Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of… — Pope Benedict XVI
You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank… — Mary J. Blige
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her… — Daniel Boone
This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth. — Donald Cargill
Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing. — Gyorgy Kepes
The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter… — Henry Knox Sherrill
The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous… — Agnes Martin
Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no… — Chogyam Trungpa
Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is… — Horace
God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully… — Bernard of Clairvaux
A certain joyful, though humble, confidence becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. It is due to Him; when we pray in His… — Nehemiah Adams
The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are very joyful about… — Geshe Gyeltsen
I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs. — William Arthur Ward
Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own,… — Thomas a Kempis
Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company. — William Shakespeare
A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future. — Bruce Barton
The intention behind our giving and receiving is the most important thing. When the act of giving is joyful, when it is unconditional and from… — Deepak Chopra
Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to… — Brenda Ueland
When we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a shift in our… — Deepak Chopra

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