Quotes About Joy

When scorn and ridicule come, we never have to bury our heads in our hands or lash out in hatred. Jesus has gone before. Because He endured the scorn for joy, we can too.

If he doesn't give you the same feelings you get when the pizza guy arrives, he's probably not worth it.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

The heavenly inhabitants are all blissfully joyful and will remain so eternally because they have the assurance that nothing will ever interfere with or separate them from their union with God, who is the source or fountain of love, joy and happiness.

To live always joyfully. God is infinite joy" (May 14, 1919). "When one loves, everything is joy. The cross doesn't weigh down. Martyrdom isn't felt. One lives more in heaven than on earth. The life of Carmel is to love. This is our vocation" (May, 1919).

The pain in itself is not joy. It is simply pain. But the meaning of the pain, that is joy.

Happy Christmas" was their version of "Merry Christmas," and a better version, it seemed to him, for making merry was different from making happiness.

I'm a great fan of Chesterton, you know. He once said that he became a Catholic because we're the only religion that sees no contradiction between a pint, a pipe, and a cross.

Joy and sorrow—and especially the areas of your life where there is weakness?

Do you see these wounds? These bruises?" "Yes." "They are my joy." "Pain is your joy?" "The pain in itself is not joy. It is simply pain. But the meaning of the pain, that is joy.

Assisi was like something, but like what? Like something one had always known, but never seen. Something perceived from afar, like a wind from the promised land that greeted the stranger and sojourner coming up out of bondage from Egypt. It was joy, no doubt about that. But a joy unlike any other joy he had ever experienced. Unexpected joy in a dark time. Curious joy. There was no other word that approximated it. A taste of sweetness like the fecundity of grape arbors in the terraces below,

So joy and sadness are simply the passage to a greater or lesser power of acting, a greater or lesser ability to bring about certain effects.

These boots were made for dancing"(260)

Do what you enjoy doing, do what you're good at doing, and do what the world needs doing.

There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.

Such a display of beauty and happiness is not possible without contentment,

The painting seems to have a bubbly effect on both of them, aesthetic champagne.

?nsan, Tanr?'y? yüceltmek için küçük ?akalar?na, özellikle kötü ?akalar?na Tanr?'yla birlikte gülmekten daha iyi ne yapabilir?

Happy is the man whose wants are few. The fewer the wants, the happier the person. One

Here's to creating a life you love

Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing.

At times it felt like I was killing myself. And yet the only thing I could recall at that moment was how much fun it had been, and how wonderful it was to do this for a living.

In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.