Joy Of Living Quotes - Page 2

• Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Real

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• This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Happiness, Laughter

  Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)

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• Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Courage, Morning

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.9, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

  William Blake

  Love, Joy, Mind

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.156, Pearson Education

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• I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

  Charles Kuralt

  Happiness, Thinking, People

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• I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

  Louise Bogan

  Happiness, Beauty, Encouragement

  Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, True Joy

  Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)

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• Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  Happiness, Happy, Faith

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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• Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

  Chris Rose

  Love Life, Creativity, Joy

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.

  Sophia Loren

  Self, Joy, Fulfillment

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• A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

  Orison S. Marden

  Friendship, Laughing, Joyfulness

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• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Christopher McCandless

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  Letter to Russell Fritz, April 1992.

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• Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

  Jean Paul

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Art, Inspirational Life

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• Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

  Robert Browning

  Rocks, Water, Joy

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Motivational, Happiness, Real

  Walter Rauschenbusch (2011). “Christianizing the Social Order”, p.248, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.

  John Mason Brown

  Joy, Bigger Better, Immersion

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• Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.

  Tecumseh

  Lonely, Morning, Lying

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Life is too short to be unhappy in business. If business were not a part of the joy of living, we might almost say that we have no right to live, because it is a pretty poor man who cannot get into the line for which he is fitted.

  George L. Brown

  Life, Business, Men

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• There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.

  Robert Muller

  Happiness, Book, Joy

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• Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

  James Hunter

  Self, Joy, Servant Leadership

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• The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Expression, Dancing

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• One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.

  Matt Goldman

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no joy like the joy of freedom. Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions, And freedom your greatest joy. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sweet, Buddhist, Heart

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