Quotes About Joy

There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.

It's an amazing feeling playing at a packed-out Villa Park.

To say I love the Christmas season at our home in the South of France is an understatement. I get such a kick out of preparing the house for the arrival of family; seeing our scruffy old villa bursting at the seams with loved ones.

Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village wretches, but men in good position, well-to-do sycophants.

It makes me so happy to see that there's still so much innocence left in villages.

Be happy. Don't make a Vine about, like, something not that happy.

There are two things that I really love; vintage clothing and books. Mash the two together and I pretty much peak on personal joy levels.

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

I'm not up for violence, just for fun.

A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy.

Violet is my everything. She's the sweetest little girl in the whole world. She inspires me. I'm glad that we have such a close relationship because she makes me laugh and shows me how great life can be every day.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

What I learned from my kids is that the greatest joy in life is not from material trappings, power, or visibility. The greatest joy comes from your kids. Nothing is even close to my kids in terms of bringing me joy.

If don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good" yo may deprive yourself of joy

If you don't recognize that the perfect is the enemy of the good, you may deprive yourself of joy.

There's a term for this irrational fear of joy: cherophobia (chero is the Greek word for "rejoice").

There's a term for this irrational fear of joy: cherophobia (chero is the Greek word for "rejoice"). People with cherophobia are like Teflon pans in terms of pleasure—it doesn't stick (though pain cakes on them as if to an ungreased surface). It's common for people with traumatic histories to expect disaster just around the corner.

For Rita, joy isn't pleasure; it's anticipatory pain.

cherophobia (chero is the Greek word for "rejoice").

Certainly we all have our deal-breakers. But when patients repeatedly engage in this kind of analysis, sometimes I'll say, "If the queen had balls, she'd be the king." If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good," you may deprive yourself of joy. At first patients are taken aback by my bluntness, but ultimately it saves them months of treatment.