Finding joy quotes
Never let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
Tell the negativity committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up. (Read Learned Optimism.)
A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it.
In a world where you can be anything you want, BE YOURSELF.
The more you love your decisions, the less you need others to love them.
It’s important to make someone happy, and it’s important to start with yourself.
Life is not about making others happy. Life is about sharing your happiness with others.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design into the present.
If you settle for just anything, you’ll never know what you’re truly worthy of.
Sometimes life gives you two options: losing yourself or losing someone else. Regardless of the situation, don’t lose yourself.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, you do have a pretty big problem.
Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
Don’t worry too much about people who don’t worry about you.
Know your worth! When you give yourself to someone who doesn’t respect you, you surrender pieces of your soul that you’ll never get back.
Sometimes you’ve got to emotionally let go of the things that once meant a lot to you, so you can move beyond the past and the pains they bring you, and open the next chapter in your life.
If you want to get over a problem, stop mulling it over and talking about it. Your mind affects your mouth, and your mouth affects your mind. It’s nearly impossible to move beyond something when you’re obsessing over it.
If it is detrimental to you emotionally, physically and spiritually, what choice do you have but to let go and flourish with self-respect?
Saying goodbye is one of the most painful ways to solve a problem. But sometimes it’s necessary.
Moving on doesn’t mean forgetting, it means you choose happiness over hurt.
Stop looking at what you have lost, so you can see what you have.
Someone else is happy with far less than what you have.
Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your problems.
Finding joy quotes
Sometimes people throw away something good for something better, only to find out later that good was actually good enough and better never even came close.
In life, you get what you put in. Everything comes back around.
You can never change the past nor control the future, but you can change the mood of the day by touching someone’s heart with your smile.
The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
It’s nice to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s also important to make sure you haven’t lost track of the things that money can’t buy.
You don’t need a lot of money to lead a rich life. Good friends and a loving family are worth their weight in gold.
You will never fully believe in yourself if you keep comparing yourself to everyone else. Instead, compare yourself to who you were yesterday.
You won’t always be punished FOR your anger, but you will always be punished BY your anger.
Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. There is no need to explain or make sense of it. Just trust what you feel.
One of the greatest freedoms is truly not caring what everyone else thinks of you.
As long as you are worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.
Don’t let anyone walk through your mind with their dirty feet.
It hurts the most when you start pretending it doesn’t.
You are responsible for how you feel no matter what someone does to you. Remember, you are always in control of your thoughts so choose to feel confident and adequate rather than angry and insecure.
Being kind to yourself in thoughts, words, and actions is as important as being kind to others.
Death is not the greatest loss in life; the greatest loss is what dies inside while you’re still alive.
Only when we begin to be awake do we realize just how asleep we have been.
You are always free to do something that makes you smile.
Finding joy quotes
You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your life’s story for you.
Don’t be afraid of change. Oftentimes you will lose something good and then gain something even better.
Worry is a massive waste of time and energy. It doesn’t change anything. All it does is steal your joy and hinder your ability to make positive changes.
If you want to be happy and bright, let go of your need to always be right.
In life, you usually get what you ask for and it rarely comes in the package you think it’s supposed to come in.
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
Life does NOT have to be perfect to be wonderful.
You look the best when you wear your smile. There is no beauty like the one that comes from inside you.
Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness.
The time spent on hating is the time lost for living a peaceful, happy life. It is a habit that controls what you see, what you say, what you do, and ultimately what you become.
Sometimes you need to be alone to reflect on life. Take time out to take care of yourself. You deserve it.
The good things we build end up building us.
You cannot change what you refuse to confront.
The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.
If you want your life to change, your choices and actions must change. Every day brings a chance to start over.
Good things don’t come to those who wait. Good things come to those who pursue the goals and dreams they believe in.
Don’t make a decision based solely on popularity. Just because other people are doing it doesn’t mean it’s the best choice for you.
Knowing yourself is one thing, but truly believing and living as yourself is another. With so much social conditioning in our society, we sometimes forget who we are. Don’t lose yourself out there.
Of all the things that can be stolen from you – your possessions, your youth, your health, your words, your rights – what no one can ever take from you is your freedom to choose what you will believe in, and who and what your heart will love.
When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and despair and cannot find your way out of the darkness, remember that this is similar to the place where caterpillars go to grow their wings.
Take all the time you need to heal emotionally. Moving on doesn’t take a day; it takes lots of little steps to be able to break free of your broken self.
When you can forgive, yourself and others, and stop the imprisonment, you’re creating the love of your life.
What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.
Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there’s a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.When you try to control everything, you enjoy nothing. Sometimes you just need to relax, breathe, let go, and just live in the moment.
Even though you cannot control everything that happens, you can control your attitude toward what happens. And in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Life will never be perfect, no matter how hard you try. Even if you pour your heart and soul into it, you will never have that perfection you seek. There will always be broken hearts, there will always be days where nothing goes right.
But you must accept and learn that even the most imperfect things will always be made better with love and laughter.
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
Satisfaction is not always the fulfillment of what you want; it is the realization of how blessed you are for what you have.
Finding joy quotes
Sometimes you just have to look back at your past and smile about how far you’ve come.
Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.
It’s not that everything will be easy or exactly as you had expected, but you must just choose to be grateful for all that you have, and happy that you got a chance to live this life, no matter how it turns out.
“Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home. It’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.” Chuck Palahniuk
“When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.” Marianne Williamson
“Joy is untouched by circumstance.” Anonymous
“Find joy in the ordinary.” Anonymous
“Joy; the kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.” David Steindl-Rast
“Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.” Patch Adams
“Learning to love yourself first brings more joy and peace than trying to love someone else.” Anonymous
“Find ecstasy in life: the mere sense of living is joy enough.” Emily Dickinson
“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. Henri Nouwen”
“Go find your joy. Whatever that is, go find your joy. Are you going to have a good day or are you going to have a great day? Because it’s completely up to you.” Sandra Bullock
“Life doesn’t have to be perfect to be filled with joy.” Anonymous
“If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal at any moment.” Carlos Santana
“To have joy in your heart, one must know how to appreciate the small things in life.” Anonymous
“Let your joy spring forth from within.” ATGW
“Find joy in the journey.” Anonymous
“Find out what gives you joy and do it.” Anonymous
“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” Joseph Campbell
“Joy is not in things; it is in us.” Richard Wagner
“A joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together.” Brene Brown
“Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace, and joy.” Annie Ray
“If you can’t find joy in the path you are on and what you are working toward now, how do you expect to find joy once you get there?” Anonymous
“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, cares enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.” Jean Shinoda Bolen
“The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.” Russel M. Nelson
“The healthiest response to life is joy.” Mark Twain
“Where there is love, there is joy.” Mother Teresa
“It is not joy that makes us grateful. It is gratitude that makes us joyful.” Anonymous
“Be committed to living in constant joy.” Pam Grout
“She found joy and wonder in every little thing. And joy and wonder always found her.” Katrina Mayer
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” Theodore Roosevelt
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” Buddha
“Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.” W. Edwards Deming
“We can choose to live in joy.” Joseph Campbell
“A joy that’s shared is a joy made double.” Proverb
“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is a slavery.” Maxim Gorky
“Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness. Goodness. Faithfulness. Gentleness, and self-control. To these, I commit my day.” Anonymous
Finding joy quotes
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”
Andy Rooney
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go”
Oscar Wilde
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”
James M. Barrie
“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”
Stacey Charter
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
Buddha
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
Martha Washington
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius
“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.’
If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”Chinese Proverb
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
L.M. Montgomery
“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
Cesare Pavese
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
Herman Cain
Finding joy quotes
“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”
Aesop
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.”
Friedrich Schiller
“Happiness is acceptance.”
Unknown
“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”
Ashley Montagu
“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”
Douglas Adams
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
Confucius
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
Dalai Lama
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
James Oppenheim
“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”
Winnie the Pooh
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
Heraclitus
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”Marthe Troly-Curtin
Finding joy quotes
“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop
“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”
Dale Carnegie
“We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.”
Dalai Lama
“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.”
Rose Lane
“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”
Dennis Waitley
“That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
Epictetus
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
Maxim Gorky
“Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
Buddha
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”
Marcel Pagnol
“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.”
William Feather
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
Albert Camus
“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”
Mary Stuart
Finding joy quotes
“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.”
Unknown
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
Frederick Keonig
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
Albert Ellis
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
Seneca
“If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.”
Joseph Addison
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”
Groucho Marx
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Aristotle
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller“Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.”
Unknown
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