Quotes About Joy

A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.

If there's one thing I know, it's that God does love a good joke.

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

Of course, they hadn't really been happier at all. But they 'd been days, and they'd had Sarah in them, and that was near enough.

Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.

Happiness annihilates time.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.

Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.

[L]aughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Above all else: go out with a sense of humor. It is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

Childbirth is full of optimism, full of light, of faith in Christ, of battling and overcoming.

Waarom duikt de herinnering op? Ik huil. En zonder reden. Ik kan niet lachen. Ik wil gelukkig zijn. Misschien is het een te grote vreugde die mijn ogen doet tranen.

The soul is never wholly assembled, except in delight.

He (Knox) handles the doctrines of election and justification as causes for bright joy in believers. 'Your imperfections shall have no power to damn you,' he writes to Mrs. Bowes, 'for Christ's perfection is reputed to be yours by faith, which you have in his blood.' 'God has received already at the hands of His only Son all that is due for our sins, and so cannot his justice require or crave any more of us, other satisfaction or recompense for our sins.

Gilbert and Sullivan is for me ... a balm, a tonic, and a stimulant. When I am down, it picks me up. When I am tired, it restores me. When I am feeling on top of the world, it lets me express my joy in song." -- Ian Bradley, "Oh Joy! Oh Rapture!

One of the reasons dad was so pleased was because it did something to her.

The right question is: where is the meaning in life? Meaning is a man-made concept. It's something we infer from those experiences that are self-evidently good, and stem from a feeling of joy and wonder. Meaning is not something that occurs in the future. It exists in the here and now, within the fact that our lives are finite. F

Gladness is welling up with in me now – I am healed, I am satisfied, I am full, I am living in the total provision of Christ.

the inner glow that pregnant women have

Home again, home again, jiggity jig!

people of every caste and subcaste and sept and clan scrambled to grab some Stardust and paper, and what they found in their clutching hands sent them to their knees in joy and sadness. On each twinkling scrap of paper Courtney Hall had drawn what she had glimpsed in that instant of the things that lay beyond the wall, the things the Compassionate Society had pushed away and abandoned and forgotten, the old things, the things of wonder and terror and joy and pain.

On each twinkling scrap of paper Courtney Hall had drawn what she had glimpsed in that instant of the things that lay beyond the wall, the things the Compassionate Society had pushed away and abandoned and forgotten, the old things, the things of wonder and terror and joy and pain.