Quotes About Joy

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.

You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.

Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away, but it sure does make those times in life's waiting room a little more bearable.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Wrinkles should only indicate where smiles have been.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness.

Oh, I love to see a man with a cigar. It reminds me of my grandfather. Morning to night, he used to sit with a great big stogie dangling from his lips. Oh, the hours we kids used to spend sitting on his lap, playing with the yellow whiskers beneath his nose. Then he'd take out his teeth with the cigar still in them and chase us around the room! We'd all laugh and laugh . . . then suddenly Grampa's mood would change, and we'd all have to run for our lives. . . . You can't buy memories like that.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Too happy would you be, did ye but know your own advantages!

Life may be hard, but it's also wonderful.

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk ... it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reveling in a much-anticipated vacation.