Quotes on Being Joyful

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: 'Am I being joyful?' And if you've got a writer's block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you're writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

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

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

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

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

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.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

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

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.