Quotes About Joy

It's not like you're becoming a born-again Christian or teetotal or an accountant or something you can stop being after a while. You'll never not be a father now.' 'It feels great, Rob' he said. 'Just great.

No matter how intense and competitive and driven you may be, don't shut out the opportunity to be in the moment, to embrace what you have, and hold on to it for as long as you can. Take time in your life for true fun and happiness and joy and laughter, wherever you can find it. It doesn't make you weak to enjoy your life and appreciate the things that give you satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment.

You can't be hateful when you are grateful!" She's

When you give power, especially to those around you, you create a more powerful world. When your giving empowers others, you gain more confidence in them and, in turn, in yourself. If you give others enough power, they will go beyond independence to possess material and intangible prosperity. This will allow them to go from being recipients to givers and make it possible for them to feel the joy and significance you feel when you get to help others in need.

If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.

Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.

Childhood was a fantastic country to live in.

who cares about all the problems and barriers, nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

I've never seen her laugh like this before. It's a sight to behold, a wonder, like the Eiffel Tower or the World's Largest Prairie Dog.

Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to wherever time washes things away to.

His wife isn't attractive in any official way, but she is beautiful. It's awesome when she shows up at the store—her face beams, his face beams, and I'm sure my face beams just from watching the two of them.

One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they're both enjoying it.

Loveliness, he said, is paid for in the currency of suffering.

Black innovators were the force behind a burst of cultural creativity, from the poetry of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance to the crossover dance craze of the Charleston to jazz, the soundtrack of the age—"the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile," as Hughes called it.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

The opposite of play isn't work. It's depression.

If you don't believe in an afterlife, then you [should realize] that this is such a short and precious life, it is really important that you don't spend it being unhappy. There is no excuse for spending most of your life in misery. You've only got 70 years out of the 50 billion or however long the universe is going to be around.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive." –Joseph Campbell

Ralph Waldo Emerson: "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children . . . to leave the world a bit better . . . to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; this is to have succeeded.

But I don't just think gratitude. I let gratitude fill my soul, because when you're grateful, we all know there's no anger. It's impossible to be angry and grateful simultaneously. When you're grateful, there is no fear. You can't be fearful and grateful simultaneously.

Remember, my friends, never underestimate the power of one breath. Mental fitness and joy on demand both start here, with one breath.

The goal is fun and profit.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase.

There is no way to happiness—happiness is the way." –THICH NHAT HANH Vietnamese Buddhist monk and Nobel