Piognant Quotations

Joy Quotations

On with the dance, let joy be unconfined is my motto, whether thereís any dance to dance or any joy to unconfine.

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Let me never be afraid of endings or beginnings. Teach me to embrace all of life with joy.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

We are shaped by out thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.

Joy is not a commodity to be hoarded and protected. It is like a muscle. It must be used daily to keep strong and vigorous.

Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.

We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

We should all do what in the long run gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is turth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough.

Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.

Pursue joy, not happiness. This is probably the hardest lesson of all to learn. It probably seems to you that the goal in life is to be happy. Oh, you maybe have to sacrifice and study and work hard, but, by and large, happiness should be predictable.

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