Quotes About Joy

The secret to creating a career that is both nurturing to the soul and the pocketbook is, as theologian Frederick Buechner said, to find where "your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."1 There you will find a job, a career, a business, and a life worth living. We cannot talk ourselves into doing something we do not inherently enjoy, no matter how spiritual that something may appear to those around us.

But that raises the question: What would you call your daily activity if you actually enjoyed it? Would it cease to be "work"?

A Prayer for Joy" Help me, O God, To listen to what it is that makes my heart glad And to follow where it leads. May joy, not guilt, Your voice, not the voices of others, Your will, not my willfulness, Be the guides that lead me to my vocation. Help me to unearth the passions of my heart That lay buried in my youth. And help me to go over that ground again and again Until I can hold in my hands, Hold and treasure, Your calling on my life. —Ken Gire, Windows of the Soul

Have fun in everything you do. Challenge yourself to bigger and better things.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.

There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.

Be happy, be smart, be kind, and laugh every day — even if only maniacally

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it's bad, you've never been so miserable, but when it's good you've never been so high.

No one can live without delight," writes Peter Kreeft, "and that is why a man, deprived of spiritual joy goes over to carnal pleasures.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever Keats

Attitude must come by the gallon with the wine around here

Within the magnificent cathedral of the Vermont forest, the joy of young love sang.

Have you found your Christmas spirit yet? he asked as they drove by Broslin Square. The decorations were out of control. "This place would make Liberace feel underdressed.

He delights in every detail of their lives. Psalm 37:23.

Oooh! I just felt him kick again!" "Now Juliet, how can you know it's a 'he'?" "I know because I'm not nearly as sick as I was with Charlotte. Boys are easier to carry than girls, you know. Or so they say. Oh!" An excited little squeal. "Put your hand right there, Gareth." "Here?" "Yes, right there — do you feel it?" A tense, expectant silence. And then, "Oh, Juliet . . ." Charles

And then he looked up into her eyes and splayed his fingers over her still-flat belly, his smile one of wonder and awe. "And to think that a life grows within you . . . a child. My child. Our child. . .

Ah, dearest, we must set a date," he said, into her hair. "A very early date, given your delicate condition.

When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.

Smiles escape from clouds above and angels ring a chorus of your love.

He admired this too: their ability to preserve joy at any cost, the way prehistoric man might have preserved fire.

smile. happy looks good on you

Embrace Fun: This obvious one is still worth mentioning, because laughter is not just laughter; it's the most fundamental sign of safety and connection.