Quotes About Joy

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

sobre García Lorca) Podía leer cualquier cosa, y la belleza brotaba siempre de sus labios. Tenía pasión, alegría, juventud. Era como una llama.

La madre tenía ya de por sí un carácter tenebroso, pero es que además decía, y no se cansaba de repetir, que la alegría trae mala suerte porque detrás de la alegría acecha siempre la desgracia. «Los llantos los oye Dios y la risa el diablo»

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I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem.

Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

I'm hurling all the little joys against the greater sadness. The sadness is a giant weight. It presses down. Its mean: "What's the point?

Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.

Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it's only faith that gives love its strength and joy.

You get one life so Live and live it well!!!

Oi niin mahtavaan riemunkirjavaan mekkoonsa sonnustautuneena kultainen syysrouva tanssi Pekingiin! Hän pyörähteli ympäriinsä, näytti kaikki pukunsa värit ja häikäisi ihmisten silmiä tuoksuvien sulojensa lukemattomilla mahdollisuuksilla, määrätietoisesti, hämmästyttävästi ja tyrmistyttävästi.

The importance of my old life is dimming as I move toward the bright light I've seen once before. It's allowing me to come to it, and this time, I won't be sent back. If only the people I'm leaving behind could understand! There is no sadness where I'm going. Only joy.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.

Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it. Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy, joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures.

We are in tune, and given the chance, we do things tunefully. We dance.

The only way to joy is to interpret our circumstances by God's Word rather than to judge God by our circumstances.

Chocolate and wine and fun weekend are delightful gifts indeed, and God is glorified when we partake with joy and gratitude. But viewing these blessings as necessities is self-indulgent. If we demand them as rights, they will enslave us, evaporating the delight and glory they were meant to convey. No one actually needs a spa day or wine or chocolate or even a vacation.

We will never know lasting joy in the Lord if we seek to understand him by what goes on in the world or by our circumstances. The only way to joy is to interpret our circumstances by God's Word rather than to judge God by our circumstances (p. 40).

The Holy Spirit doesn't give us more love or more faithfulness or more joy. He gives us Christ, and as he does, joy and all the rest are produced within us as the fruit of that union (p. 73).

How can we help what we feel? We just can't muster up joyful feelings; that's true. But we can rejoice, which sooner or later leads to joyful feelings. Rejoicing is not a feeling. It is joy in action. It is the humble willingness to offer God praise and thanks in all things, regardless of how we feel at the moment (p. 98).

The joy of trials is rarely found in the circumstances of our difficulties. Rather, it is found when we stop fighting against what God is doing and seek his purposes and priorities, which always without exception are designed for our welfare. Whatever the difficulty—even one brought about by our sin—we can leave the outcome in God's hands (p. 76).

God wants us to enjoy the peace that comes from a mind set on him and on his purposes rather than on how we feel. A Christ-focused life is a stable life, because the joy that comes along with it doesn't hinge, as do our human emotions, on daily ups and downs.

Filled with the joy of love, I gave up sadness.