Quotes About Joy

And then some days you wake up and everything is perfect.

The beauty of the ultrasound scan is something that only parents can appreciate

Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

tinnitus of mirth

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.

And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect.

And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others.

Happy people are those who use a lower threshold in order to label an event positive.

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

Getting what you go after is success. Liking it while getting there is happiness.

Get rid of sad dogs who spread gloom.

Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.

Dr. Murray points to the Nazarite system as what he calls an external scaffolding supporting human efforts at righteousness, reminding the participant that he is set apart. Christ, he said, needed no external reminder that the Father was His joy and that wine was not, that He was Life and was wholly Other from death, that He bore on Himself the shame that long hair but vaguely pointed to.

Thank fuck!

These should be the happiest days, weeks and months of your life, but behind the scenes, upstairs and down, there is always doubt, always fear and always trouble-

Force can bring satisfaction, but only power brings joy. Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.

Love me and the world is mine.

intensity of competence that crowds the throat with joy.

This is the true joy in life: being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish, little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The very best of high school still can't compete with the glory of any ordinary summer.

Let's dance put on your red shoes and dance the blues. Let's dance to the song they're playin' on the radio. Let's sway while colour lights up your face. Let's swa , sway through the crowd to an empty space.

Fairy tales do not deny the existence of . . . sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance; it denies (in the face of much evidence if you will) universal final defeat . . . giving a glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief. —J. R. R. Tolkien

It is a commonplace of Christian thought that joy is deep tranquility. Yet it seems to me that biblical joy is something more: it is "holy laughter"—the laughter of Sarah, for example: "God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me" (Genesis 21:6).

G. K. Chesterton claimed that joy, "which is the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian . . . and the dominant theme of Christian faith. By its creed (i.e., what we believe) joy becomes something gigantic and sadness something special (occasional) and small.