Quotes About Joy

Plants bloom with flowers, people bloom with smiles

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Your great spirits are mere Jack-a-lanterns in the brain, they dance about, shine and make vagaries—while those who possess happiness, soberly and quietly enjoy their treasure.

When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you.

Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.

The voice of my Beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills" (Song of Solomon 2:8).

The only thing that can bring unfailing joy to the soul is to understand and know God. Everything depends on what He is. He has created us and put us in our present environment, and we are absolutely in His power.

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!

Das Leben ist verrückt! Und ich finde das wunderbar. Wer das nicht merkt, verschläft das Schönste.

The entire cosmos is meant to serve as a sacrament: a material gift from God in and through which we enter into the joy of his heavenly presence.

Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

And then she cries some more, and finally she finds sleep, as one always eventually finds sleep, after toothache and after childbirth, after a fight and after a rare joy.

In principle this implies something else, something harder to grasp, namely, that his whole suffering—a suffering that goes to the utter limits—follows from and actually expresses his eternal, triune joy.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.

Excessively happy people signify cult activities,' I whispered to Joey.

They would walk in silence to Adams House, and Elgin would sign Caroline in at the policeman's room. In silence they would mount the stairs, and Elgin would unlock the door of his room, and then they would fall into each other's arms, sometimes giggling with relief, sometimes sombre, sometimes almost crying with the joy of this privacy and this embrace. Then

It's about freedom, joy, and wisdom. It's all about divine love.

The reason for spiritual enlightenment is not to escape life, but to learn how to live it richly, to enjoy it. The Language of Soul

I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.