Quotes About Joy

There is no resting place in the joy and triumph of the resurrection; we have always to return to the beginning in Galilee and advance forward again to the cross. It is a continual pilgrimage

Does bouncing count? -- Silk, The Belgariad

If our Gods really loved us, they'd want our lives filled with joy," she continued relentlessly. "But you hate joy for some reason—probably because you're afraid of it. Joy is not sin, Relg; joy is a kind of love, and I think the Gods approve of it— even if you don't.

Cristo, como Adán, también nació sin pecado. Pero, a diferencia de Adán, aprendió a caminar ante su Padre con gozo y completa obediencia.

La felicidad se siente, no se piensa.

perversely, it is often more fun to want something than to have it.

giving me the exact kind of smile of someone who, on Christmas morning, has just unwrapped an expensive present he already owns.

True heroism is a priori incompatible with audience or applause or even the bare notice of the common run of man. In fact,' he said, 'the less conventionally heroic or exciting or adverting or even interesting or engaging a labor appears to be, the greater its potential as an arena for actual heroism, and therefore as a denomination of joy unequaled by any you men can yet imagine.

The happy pleasure of the person alone, yes..?

She would- never mind. She was his servant. Slave mentality. This was not the girl I asked to marry me. She was his slave and believed she knew only joy...where was my wife? What was this creature she stroked and sucked at...

If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers … becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It's like eating candy for the soul. And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don't have that in their lives make it through the day.

God smiles when we praise and thank Him continually. Few things feel better than receiving heartfelt praise and appreciation from someone else. God loves it, too. An amazing thing happens when we offer praise and thanksgiving to God. When we give God enjoyment, our own hearts are filled with joy.

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life.

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

These are trivial details, but they relate to happy times.

Art is the expression of man's pleasure in labour.

In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.

I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.

In the time of your life, live---so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for andy life your life touches.

When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was home

Eating cherries on a hot July afternoon in Michigan is one of the greatest things that can happen to anybody, and here it is right now - three minutes after three - happening to ME, and to you.

Singers are the happiest horses' asses.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.