Joie de Vivre Quotes.

For this edition, we are going to look at some joy quotes. If you are happy, then may these make you happier. If you are unhappy, you will need to change. You have to change your attitude. You have to keep a positive attitude. So keep these quotes on hand, and approach life differently, so that you can enjoy the journey, and get the results you want.

'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened'.

Dr Suess.

'I don't think of all the misery. But of all the beauty that remains'.

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl.

'Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy'.

Thicc Naht Hanh.

'Sorrow prepares you for joy, it sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the boughs of your heart. So that fresh green leaves can grow in their place, it pulls up the rotton roots. So that new roots that are hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place'.

Rumi.

'A thing of beauty is a joy forever'.

John Keats Endymion: A Poetic Romance

'Joy does not simply happen to us, we have to choose it, and keep choosing it every day'.

Henry JM Nouwen.

'In France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that can be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it'.

Mireille Guiliano.

'Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joi de vivre'.

RuPaul.

'Joy is strength'.

Mother Theresa.

'The root of joy is gratefulness...it is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful'.

David Steindl-Rast

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