Quotes About Joy

Best Friends can turn a horrible day, into one of the best days of your life.

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.

When we have unconflicted self-esteem, joy is our motor, not fear. It is happiness that we wish to experience, not suffering that we wish to avoid. Our purpose is self-expression, not self-avoidance or self-justification. Our motive is not to "prove" our worth but to live our possibilities.

...I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh as that was! My very heart leaped with delight at the sound.

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." [ Notebook , Oct. 10, 1842]

May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.

We shall go wild with fireworks...And they will plunge into the sky and shatter the darkness. We don't have any fireworks that big

Sometimes living can be hard, but it's only because we're alive that we can make each other laugh,cry...be happy! In this world, if that's not a reason for being born in this world...I don't know what is!

My wish can't be granted by the King. Because... it's that you'll always be happy and smile.

Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.

Our afflictions brothers and sisters often will not be extinguished, they will be dwarfed and swallowed up in the joy of Christ. That's how we overcome, most of the time. It's not their elimination, but the placing of them in that larger context.

In order for men to partake of the fruit of felicity,they must plant the seeds thereof.

It follows, then, that you and I cannot really expect to glide through life, coolly air-conditioned, while naively petitioning: "Lord, give me experience but not grief, a deeper appreciation of happiness but not deeper sorrow, joy in comfort but not in pain, more capacity to overcome but not more opposition; and please do not let me ever feel perplexed while on thine errand. Then let me come quickly and dwell with thee and fully share thy joy.

Without the threat of suffering, we can't experience true joy.

The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment

Do what you do for the sheer joy of it, Do what you choose,not what someone else chooses for you.

The sun shone, we were warm. We sat and relaxed on the grass. We were very hungry, but the joy of survival strengthened our spirits. The hunt in the forest was still on, we had to wait here.

Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

What a great and happy place the world was! But you had to be big and grown-up before you could do just what you liked.

You would think," added Art, "that a wedding was a great thing." "Well," replied Old Hector, "it's not a small thing, as a rule. They contrive, one way or another, to make a lot of it.

It's amazing how flabby you get when you're happy.