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They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I've ever seen. -- Morena Baccarin
A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task. -- Randy Pausch
Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find. -- Charles Kuralt
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. -- E. M. Forster
Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew. -- Linda Gray
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. -- Bertrand Russell
Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy. -- Nhat Hanh
I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating. -- Katarina Witt
I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money. -- Paulo Coelho
When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life. -- Suze Orman
Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went. -- Jonathan Sacks
People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me. -- August Strindberg
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. -- Christopher McCandless
For my whole career, I've been a singer-slash-songwriter, even though I'm very thankfully known for my voice. Songwriting has always been a joy in my life, and to be recognized for it is extremely validating. -- Jennifer Nettles
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity. -- Albert Camus
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. -- Rollo May
No one who strives with full faith and heart for the blessings of eternal life will be denied. And how great will be the joy and how much deeper the appreciation then after enduring in patience and faith now. -- Henry B. Eyring
The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament. -- Rowan Williams
My joy in life is not because I have not had any problems. I have joy because I have learned there is nothing too great for God's power to deal with, nor anything too small or insignificant for His love to be concerned about. -- Josh McDowell
I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives. -- Karen Joy Fowler
That's what life is for, to find that joy in yourself. -- Goswami Kriyananda
As always, a million heartfelt thanks for bringing such joy into this chick's life. -- Princess Diana
Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious. -- Walt Whitman
Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy. -- Virginia C. Andrews
In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy. -- John Piper
Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow. -- Deborah Smith
Look in the perfumes of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life. -- Wang Wei
Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it. -- Jay Samit
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die. -- George Bernard Shaw
For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love. -- Robert Browning
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. -- George Bernard Shaw
Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it. -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
Switch on and keep on in yourself the cheerful buttons... Those marked Joy, Laughter, Happiness, Love, Passion for life, Gratitude for life. -- Robert Muller
I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me. -- Steve Earle
Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy. -- Oprah Winfrey
I am so grateful for my beautiful life. I am cherished and loved. And I share my love and joy with everyone. -- Louise Hay
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He (God) is determined to pursue you because He knows the greatest joy in your life will come from His lan for you. -- Beth Moore
I had been searching for joy in the relatively good times of life, now I had to find joy amidst darkness and agony. -- Margaret Feinberg
My family, my friends, and skiing... thats it for me, thats my life. The joy I get from skiing, thats worth dying for. -- C. R. Johnson
I agree to the fight. The award, which is getting for these hardships, it is exorbitantly large. It is the joy of life. -- Jerzy Kukuczka
Joy and happiness are the treasures of life and it comes when we appreciate and express gratitude for the abundance of our life. -- Debasish Mridha
Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us. -- Leo Tolstoy
Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me. -- Alexander Pushkin
Cherish every season of life; for without coldness, there is no comfort in warmth, and without darker days, there is no joy in light. -- Wes Fesler
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals. -- Igor Stravinsky
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. -- Jean Shinoda Bolen
Those who realize that life is for growing and developing from each and every challenge, each day of our lives, live a life of joy!!! -- Zelig Pliskin
Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity. -- Germaine Greer
Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy -- Charles Spurgeon
I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in the same place. -- Douglas Southall Freeman
I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life. -- David Platt
Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature of his own soul. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I feel like my joy in life has intensified, (and) my compassion for people has just strengthened. I have compassion that I wouldn't have had before. -- Lauren Scruggs
Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other. -- Paula Heller Garland
Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us, And fires us With courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous? -- John Gay
I think our animals are angels, earth-angels, pointing out for us the steadfast path of love, loyalty, optimism, faith, joy, hope. They teach us everything important about life. -- Sophy Burnham
The cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living . . . -- Maria Popova
You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there. -- Barbara Johnson
There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever, unless you step off the wheel. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life. -- Elbert Hubbard
[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better. -- Amy Dickinson
Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish. -- Melissa de la Cruz
Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price. -- Oriana Fallaci
I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist? -- Mary Cassatt
In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other. -- Edward Abbey
Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life. -- Meher Baba
Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles. -- Pierre de Coubertin
We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by having a terrific love for this world. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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