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Quotes About Joy

I hurry over to John and Stormy. Stormy beams at me. "Doesn't she look like an absolute doll ?" She swans off. With a straight face John says, "Lara Jean, you're an absolute doll.
~ Jenny Han
Bailamos lento y me alegré de que la música estuviese tan alta, porque así él no podría oír el latido de mi corazón.
~ Jenny Han
I also think you need to learn how to kick back and have fun.
~ Jenny Han
See! There's so much to be excited about, if you let yourself be.
~ Jenny Han
and the whole drive home the air smells like Christmas morning.
~ Jenny Han
Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.
~ Jenny Han
Her eyes never stop shining. It makes me wish I was little again and everything could be solved with a Christmas Day puppy.
~ Jenny Han
Just go be young.
~ Jenny Han
Being happy is more important than anything else.
~ Jenny Holzer
HOW CONCISE THAT YOU CAN CRY FROM AWFUL WOUNDS, DESERTION, HAPPINESS, MEMORIES, HUMILIATION, DISAPPOINTMENT OR GRANDEUR.
~ Jenny Holzer
The Sun Has Burst The Sky The sun has burst the sky Because I love you And the river its banks. The sea laps the great rocks Because I love you And takes no heed of the moon dragging it away And saying coldly 'Constancy is not for you'. The blackbird fills the air Because I love you With spring and lawns and shadows falling on lawns. The people walk in the street and laugh I love you And far down the river ships sound their hooters Crazy with joy because I love you
~ Jenny Joseph
Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.
~ Jenny McCarthy
He knelt in the grass and gently pulled off the helmet. A familiar face smiled up at him. Charlie couldn't speak. His astonishment, his joy was too great. He could feel the others gathering behind him, murmuring, 'It can't be!' 'Is it, really?' 'Why didn't we know?
~ Jenny Nimmo
books are awsome
~ Jenny Nimmo
Dizzying, this happiness.
~ Jenny Offill
A few days later the baby sees the garden hose come on and we hear her laughing. All my life now appears to be one happy moment. This is what the first man in space said. Later, when it's time to go to bed, she puts both legs in one side of her footy pajamas and slyly waits for us to notice.
~ Jenny Offill
Quiet in the cup. Hard to believe that isn't joy, the way it flies away when I fling it out the window.
~ Jenny Offill
All my life now appears to be one happy moment. This is what the first man in space said.
~ Jenny Offill
Suppose for example, that he lacks outward comforts, good cheer and feasting, a good conscience in a continual feast; so he can make up the lack of a feast by the peace that he has in his own conscience. If he lacks melody in the world, he has a bird within him that sings the most melodious songs in the world, and the most delightful. And then does he lack honor? He has his own conscience witnessing for him, that is as a thousand witnesses.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
It is contrary to the worship that is in contentedness.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
Joy comes from having a relationship with the unchanging God and transcends any trial we can face on this earth.
~ Jeremy Camp
Is that where we're at? Finding joy in the prospect of slightly diminished atrocities?
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
Is that where we're at? Finding joy in the prospect of slightly diminished atrocities?
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.
~ Jeremy Taylor