Finding Joy in Life Quotes

I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.

Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy... Why not choose joy?... Why not live in joy?

I definitely still have ... angst but I also wrote some songs that say it's okay to love, now. I'm happy in my life, and it's a bit easier to write happy songs when you are actually happy.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.

No matter what happens, I'll always say that I've had a wonderful life.

Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.

Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll be of good cheer.

Life is beauty, admire it.

To be in touch with death, and the darker side of life, makes the lighter side more enjoyable.

Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.

Life is worth celebrating and worth living even though we're all headed to the same hole at the end of the day.

I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.

It takes life to love life.

What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

I try to laugh at whatever life brings.

Seeing the funny side of life is useful, and I've always had a sense of humour.

So how do you fall in love with life? The same way you fall in love with another person -- you adore everything about them! You fall in love with another person by seeing only love, hearing only love, speaking only love, and by feeling love with all your heart! And that is exactly how you use the ultimate power of love in love with life.

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

It's our most underrated value, I think, as human beings is our sense of humor. It's how we choose our friends.