Best 204 quotes in «joyful quotes» category

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves

God not only allowed for joyful worship but also commanded it.

I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.

Have courage, be capable of loving.... Be happy in love. Be joyful in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.

I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

If you're in a painful place, be there, feel it, but don't stay stuck there. Do what you've got to do to get out of there. And if you're in a really joyful place, believe that that's not going to last either.

I felt like I was literally losing myself as being the joyful, spiritual, passionate, exciting woman that I naturally had been.

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.

If you think of something negative and you keep it in your head, you are going to actually live that. Now, if you think of something great and positive and joyful, you're going to actually live that. You've got to be careful what you put in your head. Basically, I'll call that: "Don't ever play yourself.

In the face of life’s difficulties, let us ask the Lord for the strength to remain joyful witnesses to our faith.

I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times.

I`m the tortoise in the race, but I`m a joyful tortoise.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful

Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. When you have learnt to let go, you will be joyful and as you start being joyful, more will be given to you.

Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

My childhood in the Soviet Union was not terrible, it was very joyful.

My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time to respond to divine stirrings. No, we are then also being simply unfaithful to the surrounding reality. The one who purges gloom has given occasions and reasons, in the midst of life's sadness, to be joyful.

Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations.

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.

Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears.

The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.

Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.

The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

There's going to be some joyful lifting for us if you will in terms of some of the tasks we have to do.

Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.

This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.

The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.

When I'm creatively solving problems, I'm in my sweet spot, and nothing can take me out of that joyful present.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

To fully thrive, we must not only eliminate the stressors but also actively seek joyful, loving, fulfilling lives that stimulate growth processes

When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.

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.

When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.

When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen

You can find the richness in any moment, even the most seemingly bleak. To try to do a movie about that was a joyful experience. So actually, it was really the context of it that made the experience so worthwhile, rather than the actual subject matter, if that makes sense.

A day of birth is a joyful day.

Your life will be joyful and complete when you have a pure heart and your motives are unsullied.

A beautiful and joyful life can’t be created by following any principle or dogma or by following all the principles in a random manner. You have to learn the art of harmonising all the principles of happiness in a way that matches the rhythm of your life and creates happiness for you.

A friend is he who can feel your heart's beating and dance with it when it is joyful, cry with it when it is torn, and inspire when it is in need.

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female goldfinch suddenly hove into view. She lighted weightlessly on the head of a bankside purple thistle and began emptying the seedcase, sowing the air with down. The lighted frame of my window filled. The down rose and spread in all directions, wafting over the dam’s waterfall and wavering between the tulip trunks and into the meadow. It vaulted towards the orchard in a puff; it hovered over the ripening pawpaw fruit and staggered up the steep faced terrace. It jerked, floated, rolled, veered, swayed. The thistle down faltered down toward the cottage and gusted clear to the woods; it rose and entered the shaggy arms of pecans. At last it strayed like snow, blind and sweet, into the pool of the creek upstream, and into the race of the creek over rocks down. It shuddered onto the tips of growing grasses, where it poised, light, still wracked by errant quivers. I was holding my breath. Is this where we live, I thought, in this place in this moment, with the air so light and wild? The same fixity that collapses stars and drives the mantis to devour her mate eased these creatures together before my eyes: the thick adept bill of the goldfinch, and the feathery coded down. How could anything be amiss? If I myself were lighter and frayed, I could ride these small winds, too, taking my chances, for the pleasure of being so purely played. The thistle is part of Adam’s curse. “Cursed is the ground for thy sake, in sorrow shalt thou eat of it; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee.” A terrible curse: But does the goldfinch eat thorny sorrow with the thistle or do I? If this furling air is fallen, then the fall was happy indeed. If this creekside garden is sorrow, then I seek martyrdom. I was weightless; my bones were taut skins blown with buoyant gas; it seemed that if I inhaled too deeply, my shoulders and head would waft off. Alleluia.

A joyful mind is a beautiful mind.