Quotes About Joy

But work a year and sleep an hour, and sleep a night and sing a day, And take a little wine and love, and when you feel religious—pray.

Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance: 'tis He, not I, who shall complain. Meal may be scarce and cakes be burnt, yet I weep not nor even scold: The sun is food enough for me, 't is large, and has not yet grown cold.

Then heart and soul, body and mind, memory and will, the very breath of life itself, everything that you have and are unites in gratitude and joy, tuned like a violin string to the name of Jesus. This "descent" is a gift of the Holy Spirit, not something you can force. So you may say that you are practicing the Jesus Prayer,

The Jesus Prayer teaches you how to "lean just right," combining joy, trust, penitence, and gratitude, so you can find yourself in his presence.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.

To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Un instante placentero y desbordante de vida gloriosa vale más que toda una existencia en las sombras.» Y

And for our work—though showers And autumn frosts destroy— Our greatest pay's not measured In fruit and flower we've treasured, But in the golden hours That brought us health and joy!

Chinese consider eating food to be one of the rare joys of living...

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.

She liked him. She liked the feeling of liking him. She felt light and smiley and too full of excitement to think of anything else.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

Espero que la salida sea alegre y espero no volver nunca más.

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.

Senki sem vonja kétségbe, hogy örömet jelent szórakoztatni és megrázni az embereket, azt az örömet viszont, amit a közönség bosszantása jelent, az írók érdekes módon többnyire tagadják, bár meggyÅ'zÅ'désem, hogy a legtöbb színdarabot kizárólag e célból írták, s nem is a legrosszabbakat.

Then and Now In younger days each morning I rose with joy, To weep at nightfall; now, in my later years, Though doubting I begin my day, yet Always its end is serene and holy.

Each day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness.