Joyful Existence Quotes

Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

The whole point is to live life and be - to use all the colors in the crayon box.

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

Celebration is without any cause. Celebration is simply because we are. We are made out of the stuff called celebration.That's our natural state - to celebrate - as natural as it is for the trees to bloom, for birds to sing, for rivers to flow to the ocean. Celebration is a natural state.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.

How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful and new.

From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.

To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love

Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.

Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being.

What do I think happens when we die? I think we enter into another stage of existence or another state of consciousness that is so extraordinarily different from the reality we have here in the physical world that the language we have is not yet adequate to describe this other state of existence or consciousness. Based on what I have heard from thousands of people, we enter into a realm of joy, light, peace, and love in which we discover that the process of knowledge does not stop when we die. Instead, the process of learning and development goes on for eternity.

I want to say, without hesitation, the purpose of our life is happiness.

Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.

Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.

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?

The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.

God is always joking. Look at your own life - it is a joke! Look at other people's lives, and you will find jokes and jokes and jokes. Seriousness is illness; seriousness has nothing spiritual about it. Spirituality is laughter, spirituality is joy, spirituality is fun.

How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!

Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering.