Quotes About Joy

There's this little acronym I was taught in grade school—it's J-O-Y. It's supposed to make Plain children remember that Jesus is first, Others come next, and You are last.

I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it's not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.

It's not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years.

Regardez mon enfant, voyez l'éclat de ses boucles folles et son sourire pareil à un vol de papillon. Un tel visage ne peut pas être celui de quelqu'un qui meurt à petit feu. Je ne la connais que depuis deux ans. Mais si vous preniez chaque souvenir, chaque instant, si vous les étiriez bout à bout, ça ferait une éternité.

To us, summer was a verb

Appeals to the Young and the Young at Heart.

It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.

What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.

And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness?

Those days were like a crown of gold over her head. Her hair was a knotted nest of some tiny white and yellow flowers with little bluebells wrapped inside her curls. Maybe she'd bring him a sandwich or a bottle of Coca-Cola, all cold and full of beads of ice along the side. Wasn't it all so pretty? Wasn't it all so nice?

The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative attitude. No circumstance, no adversity can force you to live in despair. As Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt, often said, 'No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

But she had to go to bed first, and all night she slept soundly on her bed of hay, dreaming of nothing but of shining mountains with red roses all over them, among which happy little Snowflake went leaping in and out.

After many years of joyless life, the blind grandmother had at last found something to make her happy; her days were no longer passed in weariness and darkness, one like the other without pleasure or change, for now she had always something to which she could look forward.

acuérdate que mañana estaré otra vez a tu lado, y que ya no has de balar con tanta tristeza.

The most beautiful thing of all, though, is to be able to shake hands again with an old friend, as in days gone by; it is a great comfort to find again, what we have treasured.

I want to be able to run about like the goats do.

ahora sintiese una dicha muy grande al despertarse en su nueva morada, pensando en todas las cosas bonitas que había visto el día anterior y en lo que podría ver hoy

Ah, Heidi, that brings light to the heart! What comfort you have brought me!

Is it possible! is it really possible! so the dear God has not forgotten us! exclaimed the grandmother.

The joyous cries he heard over the wall were all the reward he needed for a job well done and he smiled as he heard them.

Friendship with children increases the pleasure of life.

Friendship with children creates loving friends.

Play with your wife. Laugh with your husband. Go out together. Stand together in prayer. Yearn to be each other's best friend in marriage.

You need friends who make you giggle and come alive for progress. Talk with them.