Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!"
Gratitude is the richest, most joyful feeling humans are privileged to experience.
The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.
You can change your emotion immediately. . by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.
For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.
With all the strength of my soul, I testify that God lives, that His Beloved Son is the firstfruits of the Resurrection, that the gospel of Jesus Christ is that penetrating light that makes of every hopeless dawn a joyful morning.
The essence of all health begins through joyful living.
I've been producing for 13 years. I've made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance.
[I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.
To have a human form is a joyful thing.
At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
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.
Begin now, as you read these words, as you sit in your chair, to offer your whole selves, utterly and in joyful abandon, in quiet, glad surrender to Him who is within. In secret ejaculations of praise, turn in humble wonder to the Light, faint though it may be.
I've stood in long lines, in the rain and under the sun, just to buy a pack of butter or a box of paper napkins. I've seen mothers running after the corpses of their martyred sons, oblivious to whether their headscarves or their chadors or their stockings and shoes were slipping off or not. I won't say any more. In the light of all this, how did you expect my poetry to be joyful or, as in my recent poem, to speak of love? Even so, more than half of my poetry is joyful and these are the products of the moments when I've felt happy.
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are, and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality, it connects you to reality.
It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!
One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.