Top 99 Choose Joy Sayings
#1. The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.
Henri Nouwen
#2. Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#3. We are allowed to do that, are we not Mabel? To invent our own endings and choose joy over sorrow?
Eowyn Ivey
#4. ...don't simplify your life so you can do more. Simplify your life so you can focus on what matters - and you are what matters. Simplifying your life means focusing on who you are physically, emotionally, and spiritually. If you want to choose joy daily, that's the place to start.
Kay Warren
#5. You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.
Leo Buscaglia
#6. We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there ... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy ... It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love.
Henri Nouwen
#7. The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy.
Deepak Chopra
#8. Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).
Wendy Beckett
#9. Choose joy! Joy is a choice. Joy is a witness. Joy is a therapy. Joy is a habit. If Jesus, who drank so deeply of the world's sorrow, could be filled with so much fun and laughter, then so can I.
George Foster
#10. Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy ... Why not choose joy? ... Why not live in joy?
Leo Buscaglia
#11. Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain ... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
Kevyn Aucoin
#12. We have a choice at every moment. We can engage in sadness, anger or fear or we can choose joy, love, and peace,
Jude Bijou
#14. Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.
Marianne Williamson
#15. Life may not always be beautiful. Sometimes it hurts. But this one thing I can do. Always. I can always choose joy.
Anusha Atukorala
#16. I thought about loneliness. How its not something you catch and mostly we choose it. How a trouble shared is a trouble halved but things like love and joy are multiplied when you have someone to share them with.
Vikki Wakefield
#17. Hope strengthens. Fear kills[ ... ] That simple adage is master of every situation, every choice. Each morning we wake up, we get to choose between hope and fear and apply one of those emotions to everything we do. Do we greet things that come our way with joy? Or suspicion?
Karen Marie Moning
#18. I am an optimist ... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.
Tom Hiddleston
#19. We can't choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.
Paulo Coelho
#20. Joy in your Job is possible to the extent you're willing to choose it.
Todd Stocker
#21. The best way to choose what to keep and what to throw away is to take each item in one's hand and ask: "Does this spark joy?" If it does, keep it. If not, dispose of it. This is not only the simplest but also the most accurate yardstick by which to judge.
Marie Kondo
#22. Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.
Alan Cohen
#23. I am totally free to choose thoughts of joy. It is my Divine right to do so.
Louise Hay
#24. There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.
Kris Radish
#25. Let us choose to live our lives with the joy of loving.
Debasish Mridha
#26. The Calvary road with Jesus is not a joyless road. It is a painful one, but it is a profoundly happy one. When we choose the fleeting pleasures of comfort and security over the sacrifices and sufferings of missions and evangelism and ministry and love, we choose against joy.
John Piper
#27. Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens - even when things go wrong.
Jim George
#28. The secret of gospel change is being convinced that Jesus is the good life and the fountain of joy. Any alternative we might choose would be the letdown.
Tim Chester
#29. Joy would not deny the hardship, but would choose to acknowledge and face it no matter what the outcome.
Margaret Feinberg
#30. If we wish to follow Christ closely, we cannot choose an easy, quiet life. It will be a demanding life, but full of joy.
Pope Francis
#31. You either choose to help others, or you don't choose to help others ... THERE IS NO IN-BETWEEN!
Martin R. Lemieux
#32. I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.
Karen Joy Fowler
#33. Is it not strange that while we have an opportunity to choose Positive over Negative,Joy over Sorrow,we often choose the latter?-RVM
R.v.m.
#34. Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.
C.S. Lewis
#35. Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.
Francis Chan
#36. The joy of being a broadcaster is, if you're still allowed to choose your own music.
David Rodigan
#37. Joy is not something you look for, it is simply something you have to choose to apply.
Rene Gaudette
#38. When you choose to work with a willing, happy heart, you become a beautiful source of joy to all.
Elizabeth George
#39. You have many choices. You can choose forgiveness over revenge, joy over despair. You can choose action over apathy..- Stephanie Marston
Letting your kids see u helping others and not expect anything in return can be contagious
Kevin Heath
#40. I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.
Ally Condie
#41. God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.
William Barclay
#42. Your thoughts about your circumstances have you down. On the other hand, you can be in one of the biggest battles of your life, and still be filled with joy and peace and victory - if you simply learn how to choose the right thought. It's time to think about what you're thinking about.
Joel Osteen
#43. You are free to think thoughts of worry or joy, and whatever you choose will attract the same kind back to you. Worry attracts worry. Joy attracts joy.
Rhonda Byrne
#44. Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home ... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
Chuck Palahniuk
#45. There is no joy without hardship. If not for death, would we appreciate life? If not for hate, would we know the ultimate goal is love? At these moments you can either hold on to negativity and look for blame, or you can choose to heal and keep on loving.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#46. Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me:
If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature's simple treasures,
life and living need not be so hard.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#47. We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.
Barbara Johnson
#48. There is no way to your personal joy if you hand over the keys to someone who is not ready to open the door for you. You have the right to choose your friends; do it carefully!
Israelmore Ayivor
#49. The pain wants to eat me away. I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have. I
Ally Condie
#50. Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
Ann Voskamp
#51. I want to be awake. I want to choose kindness, live & let live. I want joy, gratitude, and peace today.
Tracee Ellis Ross
#52. 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
#53. You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.
Jason Mraz
#54. Choose those things that spark joy when you touch them." "Hang those clothes that would be happier on hangers." "Don't worry about throwing away too much. There will come a moment when you know what is just right.
Marie Kondo
#55. Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.
Joy Page
#56. We have a choice. We can be jaded by what we've lost, or joyous over what that thing had accomplished while we had it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#57. Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
Oscar Wilde
#58. When we are separate from our knowing and from those we love and choose to live apart from the love of all peoples, we begin to die, that is to live without life, without joy.
Flo Aeveia Magdalena
#59. I came to the conclusion that the best way to choose what to keep and what to throw away is to take each item in one's hand and ask: "Does this spark joy?" If it does, keep it. If not, dispose of
Marie Kondo
#60. But that's just it; I can either focus on what I have lost, or what I have gained, and I choose the latter.
Angie Smith
#61. Some people like to bitch, Rose said. Bitching is OK. But for me, I choose a kind of joy
a lucid compulsion
a polemical kind of fuck-you-motherfucker joy.
Tom Spanbauer
#62. There are two ways to look at life and the world. We can see the good or the bad, the beautiful or the ugly. Both are there, and what we focus on and choose to see is what brings us feelings of joy or feelings of despair.
Lloyd D. Newell
#63. Every day is a miracle. No matter how bad my
circumstances, I have the freedom to choose my
attitude to life, even to find joy. Evil is not new.
It is up to us how we deal with both good and bad.
No one can take this power away from us.
Alice Herz-Sommer
#64. I think those who choose to find joy in serving others, those who choose to find their voice, to pursue their vocation and to act on their vision oftentimes have to sacrifice much.It's almost like a crucifixion in terms of the cross you have to bear.
Cornel West
#65. Machinations are divined. Response is by nature, nurture, experience and if sought peer pressure. You are the owner of free will. Choose.
Truth Devour
#66. Not to decide is to decide. Letting something go until it 'decides itself' is Life by Default. You don't want to live that way. So choose. Choose right now. Stop worrying about what you can 'lose' or how you can 'win' and just follow your joy. Where does your joy say you should go?
Neale Donald Walsch
#67. Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#68. Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.
Joy Page
#69. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have. (Ky Markham)
Ally Condie
#70. Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose this. Joy hit him like a lightning-bolt.
Mary Renault
#71. We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.
John Piper
#72. I am a spiritual being. After this body is dead, my spirit will soar. I refuse to let what will rot, rule the eternal. I choose self-control. I will be drunk only by joy. I will be impassioned only by my faith. I will be influenced only by God. I will be taught only by Christ. I choose self-control.
Max Lucado
#73. Trust your Heart. Value its intuition. Choose to let go of fear, and to open to the true and you will awaken to the freedom, clarity and joy of Being
Mooji
#74. Fear has no place in the lives of those who choose to be victorious.
Molly Friedenfeld
#75. We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living ... I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.
Angela Thomas
#76. If life didn't end... there would be no need for me to choose love in the face of death is the ultimate act of courage. I am the joy, but you are the meaning. Together, we make humanity more than it otherwise might have been.
Martha Brockenbrough
#77. Each day brings its own colours to be chosen, mixed, pigments of joy, happy moments, smiles and laughter ... And which will you choose? For 'Life' is choice ...
John McLeod
#78. Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.
Mary Lee Settle
#79. If life didn't end,' he said, 'there would be no need for me. To choose love in the face if death is the ultimate act of courage. I am the joy, but you are the meaning. Together, we make humanity more that it otherwise might have been.
Martha Brockenbrough
#80. The path you walk is unique and needed. There is no other like yours. On your path you experience love, joy and peace, as well as loneliness, sadness and torment. These all are specific lessons you choose to rediscover your divine identity.
Raphael Zernoff
#81. Do what you do for the sheer joy of it,
Do what you choose,not what someone else chooses for you.
Neale Donald Walsch
#82. Don't strive for perfection. There are so many changes you can make, there are so many tips you can choose to incorporate--start with ones that aren't going to diminish joy.
Sophia Ruan Gushee
#83. True joy is independence of circumstances - Choose to rejoice!
Andrew Wommack
#84. If you choose your life's work well, something bewitching can happen through your labors. Each hour you log can be a source of joy.
Laura Vanderkam
#86. Habits are a way of life and often define our lives. Habitually miserable? You'll see misery in most circumstances. Habitually joyful? You'll see joy in most situations. My goal is to choose habits that empower me and break those that wear me down.
Charles F. Glassman
#87. But let me offer a word of caution. If you choose to give from your heart, be careful. The most incredible feeling might just overwhelm you. And if you continue in this behavior, that feeling may become permanent.
Steve Goodier
#88. Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.
Joy Page
#89. There is no moment of my life when you are not a part of me; you hold my heart; you guard my soul; you guide my dreams so tenderly
And if my will might be done, and all I long for could come true, with perfect joy I would choose to share eternity with you.
Robert Sexton
#90. The truths of the gospel do not change. If you will follow the Christ, follow his prophet, and follow his Spirit, you will always choose the right. As a result of your wise choices, your testimony will grow stronger, and great blessings of joy, happiness, and peace will be yours.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#91. Inner joy enables you to choose to look beyond your pain and make your praise a sacrifice to God.
Jim George
#92. Joy is a choice, and it's something we fight for and choose.
Joshua Stannard
#93. It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.
Graeme Base
#94. Today, I choose awareness. I choose to be aware of the beauty of life and living. I choose to be aware of the simple pleasures in life. I choose awareness of joy, awareness of peace, and awareness of love.
Iyanla Vanzant
#95. Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit; and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.
Owen Feltham
#96. There is no heaven of glory bright, and no hell where sinners roast. Here and now is our day of torment! Here and now is our day of joy! Here and now is our opportunity! Choose ye this day, this hour, for no redeemer liveth!
Anton Szandor LaVey
#97. Some souls seek to walk in awareness. Souls who walk in awareness choose a different path. They seek to experience all the peace and joy, limitlessness and freedom, wisdom and love that Oneness brings.
Neale Donald Walsch
#98. Was it as Ada suggested, that we can choose our own endings, joy over sorrow? Or does the cruel world just give and take, give and take, while we flounder through the wilderness?
Eowyn Ivey
#99. If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.
Ralph Marston
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