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Quotes About Joy

You, God, created everything, and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created. REVELATION 4:11 NLT The Lord takes pleasure in his people. PSALM 149:4 TEV
~ Rick Warren
Happiness isn't getting all that you want. It's enjoying all that you have.
~ Rick Warren
George Bernard Shaw wrote, "This is the true joy of life: the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
~ Rick Warren
There is just one moon and one golden sun—" Sun! Finn thought. What were they missing? "And a smile means friendship to ev'ryone—
~ Ridley Pearson
That's success: being happy with your life.
~ Rita Dove
To work at what you love—a heaping up of joys.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Friendship distills the sweetness of life.
~ Rita Mae Brown
All's well here. Hope your life is full of mice, moles, voles, butterflies, and the occasional inattentive bird. In Catitude, Sneaky Pie
~ Rita Mae Brown
If you are good life is good.
~ Roald Dahl
Life is more fun if you play games.
~ Roald Dahl
When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants - and DESERVES - is a parent who is SPARKY!
~ Roald Dahl
Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.
~ Roald Dahl
There aren't many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,' Matilda said. 'Do you think that all children's books ought to have funny bits in them?' Miss Honey asked. 'I do,' Matilda said. 'Children are not so serious as grown-ups and love to laugh.
~ Roald Dahl
A message To the children who have read this book. When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important. A stodgy parent is no fun at all! What a child wants -and DESERVES- is a parent who is SPARKY! - Danny, the champion of the world.
~ Roald Dahl
Never grow up...always down.
~ Roald Dahl
Everybody was feeling happy now. The sun was shining brightly out of a soft blue sky and the day was calm. The giant peach, with the sunlight glinting on its side, was like a massive golden ball sailing upon a silver sea.
~ Roald Dahl
Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" And at the same time, his long bony body rose up out of the bed and his bowl of soup went flying into the face of Grandma Josephine, and in one fantastic leap, this old fellow of ninety-six and a half, who hadn't been out of bed these last twenty years, jumped on to the floor and started doing a dance of victory in his pajamas.
~ Roald Dahl
A rowdy little girl who gave way upon the slightest provocation to uncontrollable laughter.
~ Roald Dahl
A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men
~ Roald Dahl
And Matilda found, to her surprise, that life could be fun. She decided to have as much fun as possible. After all, she was a very smart kid.
~ Roald Dahl
I bambini non sono seri come gli adulti, e ridono volentieri.
~ Roald Dahl
A whizzpopper!' cried the BFG, beaming at her. 'Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping is forbidden among human beans?
~ Roald Dahl
He threw up his arms and yelled "Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" And at the same time, his long bony body rose up out of the bed and his bowl of soup went flying into the face of Grandma Josephine, and in one fantastic leap, this old fellow of ninety-six and a half, who hadn't been out of bed these last twenty years, jumped on to the floor and started doing a dance of victory in his pajamas.
~ Roald Dahl
the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.
~ Roald Dahl