Joy Of Life Quotes

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
― Julia Child

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?”
― Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful

“Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.”
― Ernest Barbaric

“Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.”
― Aristotle

“There is a certain joy in looking through the window of a moving vehicle. It makes us thoughtless. And no mental state is as blissful as our mind devoid of any ideas. One doesn’t need to sit in a yogic pose to meditate. Whenever you are on a train or a car, just look outside the window, and you’ll achieve a state of delight akin to meditation.”
― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

“It's not my job to make you happy. It's your job to learn that only those who quit selfishly seeking their own happiness find it.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“God can take the ordinary and create the extraordinary. Our incredible God has the power to transform your simple life and give you the life of your dreams. Remarkable things happen in your life when you believe.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush

“It’s the war between what’s the right thing to do and what you feel is right?
It’s the battle between who you were and now where you’re headed
It’s the leap of faith that you need to take to get through the rough paths,
It’s the fear that you need to leave behind to do the daring things,
And you stay stuck wondering,
What to do?
Where to go?
Why does life get challenging?
Would I be ever able to make it?
Queries eat you up alive,
Answers seem not to care,
And at that moment, miracles happen out of nowhere,
Just open your eyes and see the turned tables,
You're given a reward after being tested.”
― Hareem Ch, Muse Buzz

“The world seems to want us to be sad and angry because bad things frequently happen. But I say we should feel the opposite. We should be happy and cheerful because good things happen. We should be delighted to see the sun rise and stars glow and rainbows color stormy skies. We should savor every simple breath and eat each meal with gratitude. We should slumber in sweet dreams and relish moments of laughter and love. We should take more notice of the joys and kindnesses that do exist, still dictating the actions of millions of good people all over the world. Life is filled with pleasant moments, not just grief. We should be happy because this is true.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“Be grateful when you have friends who care for you, it's a blessing to see nice happy people around us.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds in which high spirits play no part. Only excess of strength is proof of strength.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ

“That’s the thing about love
It can take you up to the mountaintop and can drop you
And the impact will either kill you or make you a new person”
― Kehinde Sonola, Klosophy

“There is no such thing as perfection, only improvement.”
― Marsha Hinds

“The joy of life comes from taking advantage of the present and contributing to something bigger than ourselves. -- Suzanna in Flower Girl A Novel”
― Merida Johns, Flower Girl A Novel

“What is Happiness?

Happiness is a myth. It doesn't exist.

What we call happiness is merely a temporary sensation of excitement that we receive upon the fulfillment of our expectations.

It's not happiness, it's addiction.

And since we have made a society out of this insane pursuit of addiction, our brain is never at a healthy state to actually fathom and more importantly produce true happiness.

And what is true happiness?

Contentment.

You've been working for hours. You haven't had the time to even have some water. Finally you finish your work and drink a glass of water. The sheer feeling of joy that you receive at that moment - that's happiness, that's contentment.

You haven't been near your loved ones for days, for you've been away for work. Finally you get home and take them in your arms - that's happiness, that's contentment.

Now let me tell you what is not happiness, what is in fact an unhealthy addiction which only ruins a person's life both mentally and physically.

You've been using the same smartphone for over a year now. Suddenly the brand announces the release of a new model. And you get all hyped up to buy that model, despite the fact that you don't really need it. That's addiction - that's an illness.

You visit a new place on vacation. But instead of experiencing that place with your heart, you bring your phone out and waste the entire vacation on taking pictures to post on social media.

That's addiction, that's illness. You know why? Because when you get home, you realize, you have plenty of pictures of the vacation on your phone alright, but you have no meaningful memory of that place in your heart.

In usual circumstances, our brain doesn't distinguish between addiction and true joy. It can only do that, when we stop running and start living. Because at the end of the day, joy is not about fulfilling expectations, joy is about learning to live beyond expectations.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“Joy is not about fulfilling expectations, joy is about learning to live beyond expectations.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“The true joy comes from filling the spiritual vacuum with an intimate relationship with the One who is pure joy – Jesus Christ. Jesus said His joy would “remain in you” and “your joy no one will take from you” (John 15:11; John 16:22).”
― Prasanth Jonathan

“Joy is your blueprint and your birthright.”
― Sagel Urlacher, Yin Yoga & Meditation

“Joy,” as the Archbishop said during the week, “is much bigger than happiness. While happiness is often seen as being dependent on external circumstances, joy is not.”
― Douglas Abrams, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

“There was every reason to feel natural joy in the world, but for the one that makes it accessible. When your spirit is uneasy, stillness can be a kind of suffering. And when you're young, the unlived life in front of you, all that future, urgent and unreachable, can be unbearable.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“Sorrow and pain come in somber colors with blackened curtains that cover windows of opportunity. This weighted down worry and heartache can keep us awake at night.”
― Tekoa Manning, Jumping for Joy in the Midst of Sorrow: A Devotional to Awaken Joy During Times of Great Trials

“I find joy in the doing and not the receiving”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality

“What can I say? I'm taken; I love how enthralled she remains by the festival of living.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“What can I say? I'm taken; I love how enthralled she remains by this festival of living.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“As long as the mind looks outward for comfort, it remains distant from real happiness.”
― Bikramjit Konwar

“Shakespeare queried 'if music be the food of love, play on'; Well, I say laughter is life's champagne cocktail and humourlessness its bitterest rigour mortis vinegar. So sup well!”
― Stewart Stafford

“A bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

“I became my grief. I wept in advance for all the things that would happen, the unimaginable things beyond the horizon of all the narratives of our lives. Misery filled me like water fills a deep well after a heavy downpour. I started to choke. My spirit companions drank of my grief and filled me with sweet songs to make my wretchedness more sublime. My heart stopped beating. I froze, became rigid, didn't breathe, my mouth open, eyes wide. Darkness rushed over me, a powerful wind from the forest. The darkness extinguished my consciousness.

But deep inside that darkness a counterwave, a rebellion of joy, stirred. It was a peaceful wave, breaking on the shores of my spirit. I heard soft voices singing and a very brilliant light came closer and closer to the centre of my forehead. And then suddenly, out of the centre of my forehead, an eye opened, and I saw this light to be the brightest, most beautiful thing in the world. It was terribly hot, but it did not burn. It was fearfully radiant, but it did not blind. As the light came closer, I became more afraid. Then my fear turned. The light went into the new eye and into my brain and roved around my spirit and moved in my veins and circulated in my blood and lodged itself in my heart. And my heart burned with a searing agony, as if it were being burnt to ashes within me. As I began to scream the pain reached its climax and a cool feeling of divine dew spread through me, making the reverse journey of the brilliant light, cooling its flaming passages, till it got back to the centre of my forehead, where it lingered, the feeling of a kiss forever imprinted, a mystery and a riddle that not even the dead can answer.”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road

“Joy begins when we value today instead of waiting for tomorrow

Tomorrow deserves our attention, but today deserves to be lived. Do not keep postponing happiness while waiting for everything to become perfect. Appreciate the people, opportunities, and beautiful moments that are already present.

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Original thoughts by © Jan Jansen Easy Branches”
― Jan Jansen Easy Branches