Quotes About Joy

Beginning with Bilbo's unexpected party in chapter 1 with its tea, seed-cakes, buttered scones, apple-tarts, mince-pies, cheese, eggs, cold chicken, pickles, beer, coffee, and smoke rings, we find that a reverence, celebration, and love of the everyday is an essential part of Tolkien's moral vision

A love and celebration of the good things of creation—and this includes good food—is a crucial part of life.

Quoting her [Jane Austen] is the second-best recipe for happiness I've ever heard of.

Never go to sleep with bad thoughts and torturing memories. They will not help you to wake up whole and fully serene—the two states of mind and body without which no man can acquit himself well at his day's task. A child should be ushered into the chamber of sleep with serene joy.

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The baby, the star, and the wise men: a story of gifts and radical gratitude. Joy to the world!

Happiness is the best facelift.

giggled in her high chair, occasionally taking a bite of the food in front of

I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free. His eye is on the sparrow And I know He watches me

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

seeing his face light up when I told him. He was so happy

How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experience. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.

Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

Babies laugh three thousand times a day. Adults twenty, if we're lucky.

I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.

When happiness settles upon you like a butterfly, sit very quiet and remember the colors

What a gift to have a son.

True love is a glimpse into Heaven

Dick Van Patten

I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success.

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey…

They wander on earth and live in heaven, and although they are weak, they protect the world; they taste of peace in the midst of turmoil; they are poor, and yet they have all they want. They stand in suffering and remain in joy, they appear dead to all outward sense and lead a life of faith within.