Quotes About Joy

You seem happy. I'm almost afraid of how happy I am.

If, for you, orthodox means finally "getting it right" or "getting it straight," mine is a pretty disappointing, curvy orthodoxy. But if, for you, orthodoxy isn't a list of correct doctrines, but rather the doxa in orthodoxy, which means "thinking" or "opinion," then the lifelong pursuit of expanding thinking and deepening, broadening opinions about God sounds like a delight, a joy.

This rediscovery and rearticulation are necessary because so many elements of our Christian practice have lost their meaning and joy for us. For example, I can no longer sing "Onward Christian Soldiers" or other militant Christian hymns, knowing the harm done by the fusion of militaristic Christianity and colonialism.

Though death will cancel it, life in this world is a glorious thing.

La pregunta definitiva: ¿por qué existe la vida? La respuesta: por el puro placer de vivir.

All work and no play makes Matthias a dull mouse.

It was also very sad at times, but does not sadness mingle with joy, to make us grow fully into the creatures we are?

Baby Rollo had finally succeeded in diving from the pear tree straight into the center of an oversized sliced apple and wild plum crumble. He sat smiling and eating his way out, a mass of sweet acorn crumbs and sticky fruit.

Yurr bee's moi 'eart, an' yurr bee's moi paw. Wellcum, an' henter ee thru this door. Friends of'n ee bee's friends o' moine, us'll all 'ave ee gurt ole toime!

Cool. So glad I got to do all this in a towel.

Here's the thing, everybody loves babies . . . but only in very, VERY small doses.

Life is stupidly short. Why not enjoy the last act?

I suppose the only time we ever really get to be happy in life—like one hundred percent blissful—is when we're little kids. Because there's less to worry about? Because we're too stupid to know how worried we should be.

The important question regarding spirituality is not which God you follow but are you true to your soul? Are you living a spiritual life? Are you a kind person here on earth, getting joy from your existence, causing no harm, and doing good to others?

words of others cannot rob us of our inner peace and joy unless we give them the power to do so.

You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years to come -- requires different qualities. It requires that you turn hard, turn rigid. Because it isn't a choice that the world encourages, you have to wear a suit of armor to defend it.

life brings you everything at once. You can be in misery because of the misery of your daughter at the same time as you're exhilarated by a new romance, a romance that feels like the first act of a new life.

Hey, lay off the dairy. And uh, no more happiness.

Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran says: "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain; and could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy.

Richard hung up, tears welling up in his eyes. But they were a different kind of tears. They brought with them an overwhelming sense of joy. That's when he realized joy happens when you fit in with your life, when you fit in so harmoniously that whatever you are doing becomes your joy.

Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.

thinker W. Clement Stone used to teach, say the words I feel happy, I feel healthy, I feel terrific.

Nothing else matters much; not wealth, nor learning, nor even health… without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life." – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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