Quotes About Joy

Life's too short not to embrace the things that could bring us Joy!

Livy says when her mama and papa are happy she hears them jumping on the bed at night. Are you going to jump on the bed?

Whatever I can do to make you happy makes me happy as well.

It is possible to be happy without having perfect health....thank goodness my happiness doesn't come from my joints, but from my heart

They began swinging high and higher as the sky opened its arms wide.

Embrace each day as a gift.

When all's said and done, it's people, not things, that bring the most joy.

Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you absolutely alone inside, just a living fire. And once you have found your living fire, you will know all the joys and all the ecstasies that human consciousness is capable of.

My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation, can make you too serious and that seriousness will create a spiritual disease and nothing else. Unless a meditation brings you more laughter, more joy, more playfulness, avoid it. It is not for you.

Seriousness is a disease.

The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness.

When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is a new guest. Soon this watchfulness will become the host. The day the watchfulness becomes the host, it remains twenty-four hours with you. And out of this watchfulness, whatever you do has a wisdom in it. Whatever you do shows a clarity, a purity, a spontaneity, a grace.

Our life is like th' unstable wave, Our bloom of youth decays. Our joys are brief as lightning flash In summer's cloudy days, Our riches fleet as swift as thought; Faith in the One Supreme Alone will bear us o'er the gulfs Of Being's stormy stream.

He brings thee joy, thy foes dismays, Thy secrets hides, proclaims thy praise, With timely gifts relieves thy need, Thus may'st thou know the "friend indeed."

thus he is one who reunites those who are divided, a promoter of friendships, who enjoys concord, rejoices in concord, delights in concord, a speaker of words that promote concord.

Thank you for this, Megan. I have not enjoyed something—or someone—as much in too long to recall." "Me neither." She smiled at him, pulsing her hips upward as if trying to capture this moment for all time. "You're one hell of a lover, Dante." "I aim to please," he joked. "Your aim is dead on, cowboy.

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when dreams come true, there is life and joy.

When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.