Joie de Vivre - keen or buoyant enjoyment of life!!

It can be a joy of conversation, joy of eating, joy of anything one might do. And?joie de vivre?may be seen as a joy of everything, a comprehensive joy, a philosophy and choice of life.

We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can?choose to live in joy —Joseph Campbell

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it. —Chuck Palahniuk

The soul’s joy lies in doing. —Percy Bysshe Shelley

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment. —Carlos Santana

Let your joy be in your journey—not in some distant goal.—Tim Cook

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.—Khalil Gibran

Sometimes your joy is the source of?your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. —Nhat Hanh

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. —Mark Twain

Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it’s meant to take you. —Jonathan Groff

Joy is increased by spreading it to others.—Robert Murray McCheyne

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. —Helen Keller

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself. —Mahatma Gandhi

When you think this pain is all you deserve, you are right. You are the only one that can decide how long you will walk in hell.―?Shannon L. Alder

My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy them more fully than the sunlight...I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, and that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.―?Gordon B. Hinckle

Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.―?Jennifer DeLucy

Most people are about as happy as their self-confidence will allow them to be.―?Shannon L. Alder

Beneath the rust and grime which dulls the shine of our weathered hearts, joy patiently waits to be rediscovered―?John Mark Green

Yes, the world is full of unspeakable cruelty. But the answer wasn't to never feel hope, or bliss, or love-but to savour every fleeting, precious second of those feelings when they came.―?Katherine Center,?

Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people--the one people want you to be and the one you want to be.―?Shannon L. Alder

Love is a journey and a destination - long and excruciating on the way, unexpected and ecstatic if found.―?Stewart Stafford

Happiness depends less on what happens to us and more on how we view the past positively, enjoy the moment and create the future.―?Shannon L. Alder

I'm telling you. I know all about darkness. That's why I am so hell-bent, every damn day, on looking for the light.―?Katherine Center,

When my father was 17, he went to Montreal and found these submarine sandwich shops that were really successful, and weren't in Toronto [his hometown]. So he went to my grandparents and said: "Look, you have to give me the seed money to open up one of these places. We'll make a fortune. They've got lines going around the block. There's nothing like that here." And my grandfather's response was: "Look, I'm sure these sandwiches are really good, and if we scraped the money together we could make a lot of money and your mother and I would be really proud of you, but you need to find something that has *magic* in it for you. It was off of that conversation that my father went to college on a music scholarship, started a film club and became one of the most successful directors of all time.―?Jason Reitman

I've never seen a nation quicker at finding joy in a sad situation than the Irish at a funeral.―?E.A. Bucchianeri,?

Absolute devotion to God leads to absolute joy!―?Leila Grandemange,?

Do the Thing that Makes your Heart Sing―?Deborah Jane Sutton,?

Happiness already exists in your life. All you need to do is tune into it. And you can start doing that right now.―?Anthon St. Maarten

Life was never meant to be a race, but rather a journey—to be enjoyed with God, and shared with those we love. These are the things that make life meaningful, leaving us satisfied, rather than wanting.―?Leila Grandemange,

Instead of pursuing happiness, pursue God, and happiness will find you, deep in your soul.―?Leila Grandemange,?

Because joy isn't dependent on you or even the good things in life, like a wonderful husband. It's dependent on God, and on you being reconciled with Him. It's rooted in a deep knowing that no matter what happens in this life, you have someone you can hold on to even when you are drowning―?Lindsay Harrel,?

There can't be joy until there is gratitude.―?Melissa Ambrosini,?

When we come from a place of the heart - there is so much attraction and liveliness! The more LOVE in our hearts, the more we radiate that liveliness. Love is about radiance. Radiating attractive power. Growing ourselves, our ability to radiate love, and to be attractive with our energy is the easiest way of finding JOY and keeping it. That will draw from the universe and others, many things to us, and also even more and SO much more love into our life.―?Angie karan

How we spend our days," author Annie Dillard writes, is "how we spend our lives." Rather than waiting until we're happy to enjoy the small things, we should go and do the small things that make us happy. After a depressing divorce, a friend of mine made a list of things she enjoyed--listening to musicals, seeing her nieces and nephews, looking at art books, eating flan--and made a vow to do one thing on the list after work each day. As blogger Tim Urban describes it, happiness is the joy you find on hundreds of forgettable Wednesdays.―?Sheryl Sandberg,?

A PET scan of his brain activity showed diminished capacity on the left side of his brain, hence, planning ahead, and strategic thinking is harmed. A positive is that he is less critical of things. He has lost language and gained singing... THAT makes for more fun. What amazes me is that so many times he returns and talks and seems to think like he used to. His voice and laugh return to normal. How can that be??―?Susan Straley,?

Life is very uncertain, and, at the same time, we cannot prevent something which is certain. But the choice lies in our hands whether to let wither ourselves or to make the best of a moment.―?Arshia Mittal

Truth is a priceless treasure, but worthless if buried. Value simplicity. Pause to smell a rose, preferably planted by your hand, for it will smell sweeter. Toil builds character; heartache tests our fortitude. The key to happiness is forgiveness, forgiving ourselves most of all.―?Michelle Muriel,?

Casual use of the phrase in French can be dated back at least as far as Fénelon in the late 17th century, but it was only brought into literary prominence in the 19th century, first by Michelet (1857) in his pantheistic work Insecte, to contrast the passive life of plants with animal joie de vivre, and then by émile Zola in his book of that name from 1883–84.