Quotes About Joy

Romans 15:13: "I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit." Our job is to trust. God's job is to overflow us with joy.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. Sometimes you have to find the happy places between the pain.

Apart from you, I have no good thing,' and that God fills him with joy in His presence. It helps me remember that I'm not alone.

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Words are such fun!

Life is wonderful and beautiful but oh, how hard it can be.

Life is real, in all its complexity. And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful.

Shut your eyes to the world of pain, and you also shut your eyes to the world of delight.

And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful.

I believe I have you to thank for reminding me that pictures on an urn, though lovely, are not real. Life is real, in all its complexity. And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful.

Something in the way he said this filled me with warmth and instant joy. It was as though I had been sipping hot cocoa and the liquid was sliding down my throat and into my tummy on the coldest winter day. The feeling was lovely and exhilarating, even though it was surely ninety degrees in the park.

The day will end jubilant. Jubilant.

still have my colors. Surely a new kind of happiness is still within reach.

An amaryllis is always waiting to delight and surprise you, even when your world seems cold and dark.

Here and there and everywhere . . . puppies, puppies, puppies!

Perhaps it's true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.

Quoting Althea Warren, librarians should "read as a drunkard drinks, or as a bird sings or a cat sleeps or a dog responds to an invitation to go walking, not from conscience or training, but because they'd rather do it than anything else in the world.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

Lucky discovered that laughing was like crying in the sense that sometimes you cannot stop. And it's a catching disease, because when another person is spurting and gasping it makes you start again even after you have taken deep gulps of air and stopped looking at the other laughing person.

as unlikely as it may sound, in fact this sorrow is the gateway to lasting happiness, the kind that can never be taken from you.

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair and let us huddle together as darkness takes over. We are at home amidst the birds and the trees, for we are children of nature.

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair and let us huddle together as darkness takes over.

It's said that the best thing in life is to be happily partnered and the next best thing is to be happily single