Quotes About Joy

Months of torment, relieved at the end by a single minute of good cheer. What more could anyone want?

Richard: You really like it, don't you. Gabrielle: What? Richard: Life. Gabrielle: Oh! Every morning when I wake up and I see there's a whole new other day, I just go absolutely ape!

Gabrielle: When I was a little girl, on Sunday mornings, if I'd been good, I was allowed to feed the giraffes. Richard: Giraffes! Don't tell me that you had giraffes too? Gabrielle: You mean you... Richard: But of course we did Gabrielle: Oh what fun. Both of us having had giraffes as children.

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever-present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

There is no time like the pleasant.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

I just want to know who made the rule that you had to stop having fun once you got married.

This, I understood in a flash, was why people liked to dance. It made you forget who you were and at the same time remember who you were always meant to be.

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

Ain't nothin' but a party!

Life is so good, and it gets better every day.

To the same question a 78-year-old Study member replied, "All the many plans for the day. I love life and all I do. I love the out of doors…. It is a joy to be alive and living with my best friend." He was referring to his wife of fifty years with whom his sex life was still "very satisfying.

I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun.

Joy is primarily a religious sentiment that finds its deepest satisfaction in the Lord. Therefore one can rejoice even when he or she is sorrowing (2 Cor. 6:10) or experiencing physical sufferings (Col. 1:24). One can rejoice in the gospel in the midst of severe afflictions (1 Thess. 1:6).

This "gospel" was the very presence of Jesus himself, and the joy and fellowship that he brought to the poor.

It is in those acts which we call trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

Animals are such agreeable friends?they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.

Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come

It was as if part of his life was so bleak and dark that he felt the need to live the rest of it to its fullest, squeezing every bit of fun and happiness out of it.