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Quotes About Joy

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it
~ Simone Weil
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
~ Charles R Swindoll
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring.
~ Denise Austin
Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest
~ Henry Van Dyke
The foolish moments of the head are often the most wonderful times of the heart.
~ Charles de Saint-Evremond
Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. All my life the god of the Mountain has been wooing me. Oh, look up once at least before the end and wish me joy. I am going to my lover. Do you not see now?
~ Unknown
I'm so glad you're here. . .it helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Life, love, and laughter - what priceless gifts to give our children.
~ Unknown
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it (Proverbs 15:17).
~ Bible
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
~ Alexander MacLaren
Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.
~ Dr Seuss
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring
~ Unknown
Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, stars and angels gave the sign.
~ Unknown
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
~ Unknown
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
And the tree was happy
~ Shel Silverstein
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men
~ Unknown
What is Love? Alright. You know how when you're listening to music from another room, and you're singing along, because it's a tune you really love, when the door closes, or a train passes, and you can't hear the music anymore, but you sing along anyway?
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law (Galatians 5:22)
~ Bible
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved
~ Thomas Fuller
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth - for your love is more delightful than wine
~ Bible
All that I love loses half its pleasure if you are not there to share it
~ Unknown
Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
~ Unknown