I'm pinching this phrase in my subject header from Anthea. Here's something I thought was really nice and worth sharing, grabbed from http://www.chookooloonks.com/blog/2009/10/1/love-thursday-everyday-joy.html.
1. Living a joyful life is not about living your life 24/7 in a happy state of mind. She says, and I think she's correct, that being happy all the time would be like living with a constant floodlight in your face -- ultimately annoying and downright exhausting. Instead, she says, living a joyful life is sort of similar to following the path along a string of twinkle lights -- that really, a joyful life is simply a series of happy moments, and that the trick to living a joyful life is being gratefully in the moment when you are experiencing a happy time; and then, when you're experiencing a down time (the space between the first twinkle light and the next), you live in the present knowledge that the down time, too, shall pass, and another happy moment is just around the corner. Also,
2. Joy and gratitude are inextricably intertwined -- true joy is impossible without gratitude.
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Let us remember to always have an attitude of gratitude.
xoxo
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