Quotes About Joy

To love someone is to desire their happiness. [Richelle Bach]

Relax, c'est la partie la plus fastoche de l'aventure.

Life has a way of making us pay for our happiness. [Richelle Bach]

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood

Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?

I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

Happiness is not yesterday; it's from now on.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.

The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we're left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up.

Peace and joy are two main fruits of Christ's kingdom. Let the world be as it will, if we cannot rejoice in the world, yet we may rejoice in the Lord. His presence makes any condition comfortable.

Peace and joy are two main fruits of Christ's kingdom. Let the world be as it will, if we cannot rejoice in the world, yet we may rejoice in the Lord.

You wanted happiness, I can't blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you're not miserable.

We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor... When I say this, it should mean laughter, not poison.

It's not like a tree where the roots have to end somewhere, it's more like a song on a policeman's radio, how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple to slice into pieces.

There is rarely any joy in a frictionless space, so find your inner viscosity.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. (Galatians 5:22). While these fruits, qualities, values or characteristics are universally true for all people, how did they find expression, uniquely, in each local culture?

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond, In mildem Lichte leuchtet der Lenz.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

The fourth is the thought of the sorrows that Christ bore gladly for us. If the only Man who ever could choose His fate on earth chose pain, what great value He must have seen in it! So we observe that, borne with serenity and joy, suffering redeems.