It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
Joyful is the accumulation of good work.
For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.
It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
When we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a shift in our perception, because the same person is not necessarily attractive to other people. In relationship, whenever we're drawn to someone or repelled by someone, they're both mirrors of the self. We're attracted to people in whom we find traits that we want or desire in our own selves. And we are repelled by people in whom we find traits that we're denying in ourselves. So relationship is a true mirror of where we are in our evolution in consciousness.
You can find the richness in any moment, even the most seemingly bleak. To try to do a movie about that was a joyful experience. So actually, it was really the context of it that made the experience so worthwhile, rather than the actual subject matter, if that makes sense.
At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
There is the joy of one's own salvation. I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most delicious joy I had ever known, and that I could never get beyond it. But I found, afterward, there was something more joyful that, namely, the joy of the salvation of others.
Go forward with joyful confidence.
I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrowful--is fulfillment. The fullness of life is open to all of us.
I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.
Many people falsely believe that if you want to be holy, you are not allowed to enjoy life. . . Holiness brings us to life. It refines every human ability. Holiness doesn't dampen our emotions; it elevates them. Those who respond to God's call to holiness are the most joyful people in history. They have a richer, more abundant experience of life, and they love more deeply than most people can every imagine. They enjoy life, all of life.
Be joyful because it is humanly possible.
Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
I've been producing for 13 years. I've made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance.
Working with Roman Polanski is funny. It's like anything in life - someone warns you that something's going to be amazing or difficult or awful, and you say, "I can do that. I can cope with that. " And then when you're in the middle of it, it may be joyful or tricky, but it's never difficult in the way you think it's going to be difficult.
There is no day more joyful in my life than when I see all my family around me. That's the best it gets.
This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn't working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.
I think it would be great if more adults were able to maintain that joyful creativity that we all experience as children.