George Matthew Adams

Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.

American Editor

Florence Griffith Joyner

To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.

American Athlete

Coco Chanel

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

French Designer

Holly Lisle

Writing, for all that it's harder than nursing ever was, is also more joyous and more fun and a lot less dangerous. And the major themes of my life have become the major themes of my writing, too - so it has all worked out pretty well.

American Writer

Janet Suzman

So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain joyousness in life which should be in playing, then good for one, but it's slightly more serious than that.

South African Actress

Fergus Henderson

I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think we'll draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.

English Chef

Thomas Carlyle

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Scottish Philosopher

James P. Carse

The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous.

American Historian

Kathie Lee Gifford

Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.

American Entertainer

Ernie Harwell

American Celebrity

Use 'joyous' to describe very high levels of happiness, more intense than simply 'happy'.

Emotion Intensity

'Joyous' fits situations involving celebration, like festivals or major life events.

Celebratory Context

'Joyous' can refer to shared happiness in a group, not just an individual's emotion.

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