Quotes About Joy

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.

The most thankful person is the most fully human.

Take the fact that you were created to love. Your heart can find real joy only through love - through loving and being loved.

Now, take an estimate of Christ's heart herein, from those two holy apostles Paul and John, who were smaller resemblances of this in Christ. What, next to immediate communion with Christ himself, was the greatest joy they had to live upon in this world, but only the fruit of their ministry, appearing in the graces both of the lives and hearts of such as they had begotten unto Christ?

Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Still as they run they look behind,They hear a voice in every wind,And snatch a fearful joy.

Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

Pack clouds away, and welcome day,With night we banish sorrow.

Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

Now 'tis little joyTo know I'm farther off from heavenThan when I was a boy.

And there is even a happinessThat makes the heart afraid.

So mayst thou live, dear! many years, In all the bliss that life endears,...

Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.

The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

life, you will fill me with joy in your presence.

Food should be fun.

People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.