Top 93 Joyous Life Quotes
#1. It's about being proactive about creating a life you love instead of meekly living the one you think you're stuck with. Give yourself the gift of a joyous life while you're still among the living.
Jen Sincero
#2. If we want a joyous life, we must think joyous thoughts. If we want a prosperous life, we must think prosperous thoughts. If we want a loving life, we must think loving thoughts. Whatever we send out mentally or verbally will come back to us in like form.
Louise L. Hay
#3. The world is always in a hurry, but I teach My children patience. Live, expecting a full and joyous life. And learn to trust My perfect timing so that you may discover that all the pain found in waiting has a magnificent and awesome purpose.
Eric Ludy
#4. The life of entire surrender is a joyous life all along the way.
R.A. Torrey
#5. The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year.
Thomas Dreier
#6. As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha. Life is joyous. Life is Light. Life is happy. You are awake at last.
Susan Jeffers
#7. Look for the silver lining in every cloud and those revelations will create the thread to weave the fabric of a renewed and joyous life.
Joy Smith
#8. Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful and joyous life.
Jaggi Vasudev
#9. Magic is not always serious or solemn.
It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force.
Scott Cunningham
#10. I suppose it is the way with all men and women who reach middle age without the clear perception that life never can be thoroughly joyous: under the vague dullness of the grey hours, dissatisfaction seeks a definite object, and finds it in the privation of an untried good. Dissatisfaction
George Eliot
#11. People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.
Bill Murray
#12. The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre ... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.
Plato
#13. Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.
Jason Alexander
#14. Being made in His image we have within us the capacity to know Him. In our sins we lack only the power. The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition.
A.W. Tozer
#15. Life is so uncertain that it is far better and more joyous to play your way through it than to plan or pray your way through it.
Dee Hock
#16. Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
John Muir
#17. Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#18. I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214
Melody Beattie
#19. I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.
Pierre Loti
#20. Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
Tamera Mowry
#21. Though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space,
Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near,
I know very well I could not."
- from "I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
Walt Whitman
#22. Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
Lord Byron
#24. The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!
John Calvin
#25. If a life can be a series of perpetual surprises, that's the most joyous experience you can have.
Deepak Chopra
#26. For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
Lawrence Durrell
#27. It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of a devil.
Kedar Joshi
#28. So you ask yourself: Am I willing to take responsibility for my life, in word and in deed? If not, your chances of living a rich and fulfilling life are almost zero. If so, you have the potential for a joyous journey ahead.
Eric Greitens
#29. Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.
Charlotte Mason
#31. Writing, for all that it's harder than nursing ever was, is also more joyous and more fun and a lot less dangerous. And the major themes of my life have become the major themes of my writing, too - so it has all worked out pretty well.
Holly Lisle
#32. Oh, I wonder if I will ever feel the burst of birth-joy, that knowing that the indescribable, joyous thing that has wooed and wond me has passed through my life and produced one atom of the great reality.
Emily Carr
#33. Astrology can never give you the answers to life's deepest questions - especially where you will spend eternity. Commit your life to Christ. It will give you joyous confidence that your future is securely in His hands - tomorrow and forever.
Billy Graham
#34. And this is also what he takes Christian doctrine, in all its complexity, to be centrally about, that is, teaching an attitude rather than a set of propositions. Call it joyous openness to life. What's not relevant about that?
George Pattison
#35. Life is unpredictable so let's have a joyous and ridiculous moment with a wondrous expression.
Avinash Advani
#36. For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to
a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.
Helen Keller
#37. Be still, Be joyous, Celebrate creation, preservation and destruction; For these are the seasons of your life: Of your knowing and being.
Frederick Lenz
#38. Life's a dog and then you die? No no. Life is a joyous dance through daffodils beneath cerulean blue skies and then, then what? I forget what happens next.
-A Fool's Progress
Edward Abbey
#39. See, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with every thing; while he who is at peace with God is always happy, always joyous ... Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!
John Vianney
#40. Prayer is the natural and joyous breathing of the spiritual life by which the heavenly atmosphere is inhaled and then exhaled in prayer.
Andy Murray
#41. Remember that the one person who can make you joyous and happy is YOU! You do not have to put the key to your own happiness in someone else's pocket!
Sanchita Pandey
#42. Happiness is the little moments of joy you give yourself every single day, living a life in con stant pursuit of happy and joyous moments.
Malti Bhojwani
#43. My life is happy, joyous, free, sober and saved, and a lot of fun, too. I have a lot of fun.
Grace Lee Whitney
#44. Christ can be trusted to keep His Word that He will exchange our drab existence for joyous living, abundant life! And while true love, total acceptance, and complete security are rare in our frantic world, the biblical evidence that our desires in these areas will be fulfilled in Christ is abundant.
Josh McDowell
#45. Jewel of life, guiding light, heralding a joyous new dawn.
Jon Anderson
#46. A philosophy of work is essential if we would be whole men, holy men, healthy men, joyous men. A certain amount of goods is necessary for a man to lead a good life, and we have to make that kind of society where it is easier for men to be good.
Dorothy Day
#47. Stalin himself declared: Life has improved, comrades. Life is more joyous. . . .
Amor Towles
#48. Seek to cultivate a buoyant joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
Alexander MacLaren
#49. But her words haunted me for much of my life and played a major part in inhibiting and injecting with guilt what should have been a free and joyous expression of sexuality.
Oliver Sacks
#50. 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
#51. The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous.
James P. Carse
#52. Children are the bearers of life in its simplest and most joyous form. Children are color-blind and still free of all the complications, greed, and hatred that will slowly be instilled in them through life.
Keith Haring
#53. Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
Pat Conroy
#54. [I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected; but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?
Alfred De Musset
#55. Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#56. See Social-life and Glee sit down,
All joyous and unthinking,
Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown
Debauchery and Drinking
Robert Burns
#57. Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.
Daniel Webster
#58. Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#59. Memory is the coherence of life, that possesses all your emotions, and ambitions. Without it, your joyous as well as agonizing experiences of life won't have any significance to you whatsoever.
Abhijit Naskar
#60. If I do depart this world out here, let it be known that I went out grinning will you, and loving it. LOVING IT.
Steve, are you listening ? I FEEL GREAT. Life's so joyous, so sad, so ephemeral, so crazy, so meaningless, so goddamn funny. This is paradise, and I wish I could give you some.
Robyn Davidson
#61. I have come, more and more, to believe that the way we are in the world actually has an impact on the world. When we are respectful, joyous, grateful, engaged, the world responds to that in concrete ways. When we are angry and resentful, or selfish or bitter, things sour around us.
Alan S. Kesselheim
#62. Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near,
I know very well I could not.
Walt Whitman
#63. Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it's joyful. And joyous. I don't care if people are living without a marriage certificate. It's just about people, in some way, saying to each other, 'I commit to you. I will help you in this life.'
James McAvoy
#64. Conservation is not a desperate, defensive effort. It is instead joyous and life-affirming. - from Zen Birding
Susan Guyette And David White
#65. The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.
James Stephens
#66. The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training.
Ortega Y Gasset, Jose
#67. Is there plenty of celebration in your life? How about your spiritual life? Is it an exercise in following rules and practices? Or does it look more like a joyous celebration?
Steve Goodier
#68. Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#69. My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.
Carrie Fisher
#70. Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
Dirk Benedict
#72. I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
Fay Wray
#73. Let's make our existence more joyous, fulfilled and full of positive adventures... Let's add more vivid colors to life in the world around us: making it happier, merrier, easier, healthier, tastier and brighter! Our project is a constant source of inspiration to support these ideas.
Sahara Sanders
#74. To write freely is to walk a joyous, terrifying, exhilarating path naked through the world of the fully clothed.
Michele Garber
#75. Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.
Paul Hawken
#76. Hearts would have to break and be mended, truths would be revealed, risks would be taken. Which, when he thought about it, was simply the way life worked - messy, unpredictable, joyous, mysterious, hurtful and redemptive.
Susan Wiggs
#77. She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#78. Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.
Jim Henson
#79. Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting, meaningful, productive, joyous, can we begin to judge, or even guess, their nature. Few people, adults or children, now live such lives.
John Holt
#80. The foremost calling of the human brain is to script a safe, secure, and joyous future for a person.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#81. In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
Alan Lightman
#82. I'm of the mind anything worth a damn in life, anything fun and joyous, will always be complicated. If it's easy, it's probably not exactly worth it.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#83. The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being sense its kinship to God and leaps us in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which we cannot see the Kingdom of God.
A.W. Tozer
#84. death is a joyous journey for the purposeful life and a melancholy for the mediocre life
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#85. I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.
Sandrine Bonnaire
#86. What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.
Matthew Henry
#87. Planning is the only way to keep yourself on track. Plan your moments to be joyous. Plan your days to be filled with peace. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. When you know where you are going, the universe will clear a path for you.
Iyanla Vanzant
#88. If you see life as an opportunity, or if you see helping others as an opportunity, then all of a sudden you become joyous. You want to go forward.
Sakyong Mipham
#89. Unless we practice
loving feelings toward
everyone we meet, day in,
day out, we're missing out
on the most joyous part of
life. If we can actually open
our hearts, there's no
difficulty in being happy.
Ayya Khema
#90. This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected
in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Thomas Mann
#91. It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative
which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.
Sylvia Plath
#92. I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad. There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.
Patrick Swayze
#93. So it was that my life passed from the joyous realm of heaven to the choking and inescapable tortures of hell.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
