Joyful Quotes - Page 13

• Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.

  Eric Fischl

  Responsibility, Joy

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• Begin now, as you read these words, as you sit in your chair, to offer your whole selves, utterly and in joyful abandon, in quiet, glad surrender to Him who is within. In secret ejaculations of praise, turn in humble wonder to the Light, faint though it may be.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Humble, Light, Self

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• There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

  Kelly Bishop

  Laughing, Way, Hearing

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• Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars-and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful.

  Rajneesh

  Nature, Stars, Eye

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• [Voicing a cartoon] feels like going down a mysterious but joyful black hole. Once you relax for 15 or 20 minutes, and really go, "I don't care if I look like an ass," it's really fun to see what happens. You know that nothing is being visually judged.

  Jim Parsons

  Fun, Black, Relax

  Source: collider.com

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• Becoming an actor has really helped me as a human being. The joys in my life I feel are more joyful, and the sorrows I feel are a bit sadder, but I find I'm more in tune with my feelings as a human being and others as well.

  James Preston Rogers

  Joy, Feelings, Sorrow

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• If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Effort, Humanity

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• All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.

  Joseph Campbell

  Evil, Joy, Sorrow

  "Myths to Live By".

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• Friendship is only friendship when it is real. Passionate and relentless. Forgiving and joyful. Don't forget today to have real moments with your friends. Not a text, or a tweet, an Instagram-- that's all deceit. Hold real hands, kiss genuine lips, be a truly strong human force.

  Lady Gaga

  Strong, Real, Kissing

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Dec 30, 2014

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• A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument.

  Scott Hahn

  Catholic, Devil, Tools

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• Know that you are part of a joyful Universe. Allow your romantic, ecstatic, blissful emotions to appear more frequently in your daily life. When you feel joy, experience it and express it! As the New Testament says, 'Joy is the fruit of the Spirit.'

  Wayne Dyer

  Joy, Fruits Of The Spirit, Emotion

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 05, 2013

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• Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Prayer, Creative, Needs

  Hannah Hurnard (2012). “Mountains of Spices”, p.251, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive attribute conducive to joyful and creative living. This kind of health will not rule out and may even generate another form of ill, the boredom which is the penalty of a formula of life where nothing is left unforeseen.

  Rene Dubos

  Boredom, Goal, Creative

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• The power of this experience [fatherhood] can never be explained. It is one of those joyful codings that rumbles in the species far below understanding. When it is experienced it makes you one with all men in a way that fills you with warmth and harmony.

  Kent Nerburn

  Men, Understanding, Fatherhood

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• I think it's really hard to be joyful. I work hard at it. I always feel like it's a choice. You can be joyful or you can be depressed, and there just doesn't seem to be any future in depression.

  Barbara Hamby

  Hard Work, Thinking, Choices

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• Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Inspiration, Pursuit Of Happiness, Luxury

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• What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.

  Katherine Paterson

  Gratitude, Believe, Grateful

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• You cannot judge the value of a life by its quantity. It is by the joy that you are feeling. The more joyful you are, the longer you live. Let yourself relax and breathe and be free and be joyous, and romp.

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Judging, Joy

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• Real learning, attentive, real learning, deep learning, is playful and frustrating and joyful and discouraging and exciting and sociable and private all the time, which is what makes it great.

  Eleanor Duckworth

  Real, Exciting, Discouraging

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• For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.

  Billy Porter

  Hopeful, Empowering, Being Positive

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• "Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one relieve one's sadness," don Juan said. "Warriors are always joyful because their love is unalterable and their beloved, the earth, embraces them and bestows upon them inconceivable gifts. The sadness belongs only to those who hate the very thing that gives shelter to their beings." Don Juan again caressed the ground with tenderness. "This lovely being, which is alive to its last recesses and understands every feeling, soothed me, it cured me of my pains, and finally when I had fully understood my love for it, it taught me freedom."

  Carlos Castaneda

  Pain, Hate, Passion

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• In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.

  Timothy Keller

  Mean, Awe And Wonder, Language

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• You must be as joyful when you fail again and again as you are joyful when you succeed. It is often when you fail that you move toward the goal without being aware of it. You must feel joy even when you have not fully succeeded but only moved toward achievement of your goal.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Moving, Goal, Achievement

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• If someone analyzed your words today, what percentage would be tender, encouraging, uplifting, faith-building, and joyful? Would it match Christ's proportions?

  David Jeremiah

  Uplifting, Would Be, Today

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• This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn't working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Real, Believe, Grateful

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