Quotes About Joy

True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments....

It's always wonderful to get to know women with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.

The world is full of mysteries. And the joy of uncovering even the slightest mystery is incomparable to any other joy you will ever know.

I shook my head at all the things that can happen to break a man as he grows up and away from the pure potential of infancy, all the things that had fractured inside me. And I prayed silently that this infant, born into chaos, might meet with kindness, experience joy and find passion in life. Every one of us ought to be able to count on that much. (308)

If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence...? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

And I've never really had to get to the point of saying, "I'm now going to write a song." I've never ever done that. When I first knew I could do it, I wondered if I could do another one. Then I found they were rolling off my fingers like pearls. I never had any difficulty in writing songs. It was a sheer pleasure. And a wonderful gift that I didn't know I had. It amazes me.

Positive words are easier to remember than negative words (Ludwig, 1984).

The coolest part about seeing a girl wear something comfortable is the smile that you can just feel coming through from inside her.

I opened my mouth to exclaim about the puppies. They were beauty and joy and innocence made of flesh and fur, in an ugly time when fear and sadness and mistrust hung over the world like a sickly green tornado sky.

I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

Happiness flutters in the air whilst we rest among the breaths of nature.

Oh, joy, Christmas Eve. By this time tomorrow, millions of Americans, knee-deep in tinsel and wrapping paper, will utter those heartfelt words: "Is this all I got?"

Most folks are just about as happy as they've made up their minds to be.

Give us, Lord, a bit o' sun, A bit o' work, and a bit o' fun. Give us all in the struggle and splutter, Our daily bread and a bit o' butter. Origin unknown, submitted by Margie Mode Clarksville, Indiana

A Favorite Recipe Good for All Souls Take a cup of kindness, And mix it well with love. Add a lot of patience, And faith in God above. Sprinkle very generously with Joy and thanks and cheer. And you'll have lots of angel food To feast on all the year! Submitted by Wanda C. Fields from her church cookbook Reidsville, North Carolina

[T]he more qi-full you are, the more cheerful you are.

Joy comes when we catch the rhythms of His heart. Peace comes when we live in harmony with those rhythms.

Pie, in a word, is my passion. Since as far back as I can remember, watching my mom and dad make their apple pies together every fall as a young boy, I have simply loved pie. I can't really explain why. If one loves poetry, or growing orchids, or walking along the beach at sunset, the why isn't all that important. To me, pie is poetry that makes the world a better place.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Of all the titles that I've been privileged to have, the title of 'dad' has always been the best.

Las actividades que nos gustan nos llenan de energía incluso cuando estamos agotados físicamente.

Our individual capacity for happiness is partly inherited. It is part of our biological makeup.

Experiments document that while negative emotions narrow attention . . . positive emotions, especially joy, make thought patterns far more flexible, creative, integrative and efficient.