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The joy of living is the heart of thanksgiving. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The joy of living is the gratitude of the moment. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living. -- Vandana Shiva
Gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living. -- Lewis B. Smedes
The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you. -- Frank Herbert
Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living. -- Sophia Loren
The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living. -- Curt Sachs
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living. -- James Hunter
It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living. -- Don Henley
I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something. -- August Strindberg
One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow. -- Matthew Goldman
One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow. -- Matthew Goldman
God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us. -- Pope John Paul II
There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living. -- Robert Muller
Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living -- Aga Khan III
At a time when the joy of living is more painful than imagining the beauty of eternal life, we leave our life behind. -- Debasish Mridha
It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! -- Christopher McCandless
At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love. -- Marianne Williamson
There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone. -- Mitch Albom
How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know. -- Ernest Henry Wilson
Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once. -- Chris Rose
It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you. -- Jon Krakauer
Humility makes us more friendly Happiness makes us more lively.Love makes us more caringDream makes us more daring.Trust makes us more forgivingKindness makes us more loving.Hope gives us the joy of dreamingPeace gives us the joy of living. -- Debasish Mridha
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. -- Tecumseh
In my work, I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous sometimes, is still reaching for the stars. -- Walt Disney
When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. -- Voltaire
Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not. -- Dean Ornish
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. -- Emily Dickinson
I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy. -- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb. -- Kathy Mattea
How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ! -- Pope Benedict XVI
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
I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting. -- Dana Delany
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. -- Andrew Greeley
We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living. -- Nhat Hanh
It's like, if I had the luxury of choice, and didn't have to worry about making a living, I would definitely want to get into whatever field it was that allowed me to push further and further comedically. Because that's the joy of it. -- Mitchell Hurwitz
Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one? -- Margaret Atwood
People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast. -- Thomas Kincade
Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much better, so quickly; it reframes the reason for changing from fear of dying to joy of living. Also, the support that patients give each other is a powerful motivator. -- Dean Ornish
One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world. -- Gene Robinson
When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee. -- Steven Curtis Chapman
Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
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With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the 'greenest' person I've ever known. -- Joy Bryant
Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through. -- Karen Joy Fowler
Living meaningfully is what brings joy. -- Marianne Williamson
Passionate living is the joy of existence. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith gives us living joy and dying rest. -- Dwight L. Moody
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. -- Rosalind Russell
The living Jesus will give you joy amid tribulation. -- Richard Wurmbrand
"...Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy." -- David Steindl-Rast
Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. -- Eileen Caddy
There can be no joy in living without joy in work. -- Thomas Aquinas
I truly am living out what true joy and happiness means. -- Jessica White
Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living. -- John Denver
Discover the joy of giving and you will discover the reason for living. -- Mark Victor Hansen
The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free! -- Helen Keller
We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges. -- Dana Reeve
If you are not living in joy, you are out of integrity with your soul. -- Michael Beckwith
People living godly will dwell on high. Meaning wealth, honour, prosperity, fame, elevation, joy etc. -- Sunday Adelaja
I make a living doing what I love doing, and it's what brings me joy. -- Tom Cochrane
Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving. -- John D. Rockefeller
There is one experience that brings joy or happiness to every living being. The experience of love. -- Deepak Chopra
We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything. -- Anthony de Mello
Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring. -- Denise Austin
There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ. -- David Platt
Do not look for joy anywhere else. It is living in you, and gives meaning to all Existence. -- Judith Hanson Lasater
Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun. -- James Clavell
Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way. -- Charles L. Allen
Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water. -- Oswald Chambers
Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings. -- William Ralph Inge
Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise. -- Tom Robbins
A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration. -- Charles Spurgeon
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna -- Rumer Godden
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment. -- Cesare Pavese
Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength. -- Mother Teresa
The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
When we see the wholeness of being born, living, and dying, there is a joy in living and a grace in dying. -- Vimala Thakar
Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about. -- Henri Nouwen
What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth. -- Oprah Winfrey
Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life. -- Ann Voskamp
Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living. -- Ann Voskamp
The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free. -- John McLeod
Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts. -- David Robinson
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! -- Robert Browning
I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter. -- Christopher Reeve
Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure. -- E. F. Schumacher
I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it. -- Brene Brown
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it. -- Boris Pasternak
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
For every moment of joy Every hour of fear For every winding road that brought me here For every breath, for every day of living This is my Thanksgiving -- Don Henley
Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy. -- Le Corbusier

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