Quotes About Joy

Eating Out Jar, Happiness Jar, and others.

Marie Kondo method: "Discard [say no to] everything that does not spark joy." This includes personal obligations. I'm working

The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter.

The one thing worth celebrating for all eternity is your redemption.

Christ gives us all we need to draw nearer to him and enjoy him amid difficulties and blessings. We may get tired, but not despondent. We will be sad, but not hopeless. We will endure pain, but we will not give up. We will enjoy blessings, but not grow proud. We see that our lives do not consist only in what we have, how we feel, or what we have accomplished, but in who we are in Christ. This enables us to stand where we would once have fallen down.

No human being was ever meant to be the source of personal joy and contentment for someone else. And surely, no sinner is ever going to be able to pull that off day after day in the all-encompassing relationship of marriage!

Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

mess. This side of heaven, relationships and ministry are always shaped in the forge of struggle. None of us get to relate to perfect people or avoid the effects of the fall on the work we attempt to do. Yet, amid the mess, we find the highest joys of relationship and ministry.

Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. 1

Laugh Hard, Inhale Slowly, Think Often, Love Alway's!

Joy is a choice. Happiness is an emotion. You can still be joyful and be unhappy. When you are content with your life's purpose, nothing can steal your joy.

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.

NEVER REGRET. DO EVERYTHING IN LOVE.

Forse non te ne rendi conto, ma i tuoi genitori ti hanno insegnato la sola cosa, mica l'educazione, o il rispetto, o l'onestà, o altre balle del genere. Quelle vengono dopo, vengono da sole, se tua madre o tuo padre ti danno l'unica cosa che tutti i genitori dovrebbero dare ai figli. L'unico DOVERE che hanno, proprio L'UNICA COSA: la gioia di vivere...

A happiness that comes attached to an if or something else is sadness in disguise, choose to be happy and you will be happy whether poor or rich, small or big.

Will was not surprised that his new friend was late. Oliver seemed to possess that sort of joie de vivre that did not lend itself to punctuality.

I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.

Todas as famílias felizes se parecem, cada família infeliz é infeliz à sua maneira.

Every happy family is happy in the same way. Every unhappy family is unhappy in different ways.

The more of them you have, the more you heighten your daily joy and entertainment, the more heartache you know you're going to get sooner or later, the more important it seems to make every second count.

Permission to drink freely from the well of life - and the upstairs loo

If you had ever leaned sideways into the breeze with a sand wedge in your hands, staring through windblown tears at a golf ball entombed in four feet of fanged thistle, clothes soaked through to the skin, fingers like an overworked fishmonger, and yet you couldn't bring yourself to stop smiling—then you got it.

When I win, it doesn't occur to me to remember anybody who isn't a loved one.