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• I've been producing for 13 years. I've made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance.

  Drew Barrymore

  Years, Romance, Messages

  "Play Date with Drew". Interview with Carrie Fisher, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2007.

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• Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they-ve seen.

  Ray Bradbury

  Religious, Wall, Passion

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• It's a joyful, humbling feeling to be in different places around the planet and people have seen shows that I'm proud of being a part of, that do have things to say about the human condition, the planet, and who we are and where we've come from, that will sustain. Those ideas are universal and they work in any language.

  Scott Bakula

  Ideas, People, Feelings

  "Scott Bakula Talks Behind The Candelabra, Working with Steven Soderbergh, Why the Film Landed at HBO, Basmati Blues, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 26, 2013.

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

  Max Anders

  Worship

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• Prayer is the means that God has ordained for the supply of grace that is necessary to be joyful in hope.

  Alistair Begg

  Prayer, Mean, Grace

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• When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Gratitude, Real, Grateful

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• When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become just experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Inspiration, Practice

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• Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.

  Josef Pieper

  Mean, Psychics, Joy

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• Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive.

  Jack Kornfield

  Gratitude, Children, People

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• The problem is, you can't tell people these things. They'll think you're crazy. And I say to myself: What can I do with this life inside me? I'd like to give it ... to make a present of it ... to go up to people and tell them: You need to be joyful! You know? You have to play at being pirates ... to build cities of marble ... to laugh ... to set off firecrackers

  Roberto Arlt

  Crazy, Thinking, Play

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• To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow our selves to be joyful is to have walked through the doorway of fear, the dropping away of the anxious worried self...the vulnerability of happiness felt suddenly as a strength, a solace and a source, the claiming of our place in the living conversation.

  David Whyte

  Self, Joy, Doorways

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• At the soul level, we get precisely what we need in our lives for our spiritual growth. How we judge what we get determines whether we experience life as painful or joyful.

  Colin Tipping

  Spiritual, Judging, Soul

  Colin Tipping (2011). “Radical Self-Forgiveness: The Direct Path to True Self-Acceptance (Large Print 16pt)”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Seattle’s Moraine not only make Washington State proud, but also the whole American progressive music scene joyful. ... It’s simply an impressive dead on eleven song tour de force. ... GET THIS! Highly Recommended!

  Lee Henderson

  Song, Proud, Washington State

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• Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Live Life, People, Moments

  Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.162, Random House

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• My childhood was happy, joyful but very difficult.

  Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

  Childhood, Difficult

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• I don't open the newspapers (to see what's written about me). I don't read them and you can see them hanging at the stand outside my hotel room. I focus on my game only. Last 21 years have been really special for me and I throughly enjoyed my joyful journey

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Journey, Years, Games

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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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• Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender.

  Paulo Coelho

  Loss, Love Is, Conquer The World

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• Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.

  Regina Brett

  Beautiful, Simplicity, God Never Blinks

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• [I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Years, Joy

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• At this point in our global ecological crisis, the survival of humanity will require a fundamental shift in our attitude toward nature: from finding out how we can dominate and manipulate nature to how we can learn from her. In this brilliant and hopeful book, Jay Harman shows us how far the new field of Biomimicry has already progressed toward this goal. The Shark's Paintbrush makes for fascinating and joyful reading - much needed in these dark times.

  Fritjof Capra

  Attitude, Reading, Book

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• We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Time, Struggle, Knowledge

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• What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Peace, War

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Bleak House”, p.150

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• Our jobs determine to a large extent what our lives are like. Is what you do for a living making you ill? Does it keep you from becoming a more fully realized person? Do you feel ashamed of what you have to do at work? All too often, the answer to such questions is yes. Yet it does not have to be like that. Work can be one of the most joyful, most fulfilling aspects of life. Whether it will be or not depends on the actions we collectively take.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Jobs, Business, Work

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.9, Penguin

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• The law of giving and receiving is fundamental, and relates just as much to God as it does to us. As we go through the door of giving ourselves to God in worship we find that God comes through that same door and gives Himself to us. God's insistence that we worship Him is not really a demand at all but an offer-an offer to share Himself with us. When God asks us to worship Him, He is asking us to fulfill the deepest longing in Himself, which is His passionate desire to give Himself to us. It is what Martin Luther called "the joyful exchange."

  Selwyn Hughes

  Doors, Law, Passionate Desire

  Selwyn Hughes (1997). “Every Day Light: Daily Inspirations from Selwyn Hughes and Thomas Kinkade”, B & H Publishing Group

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