Quotes About Joy

My capacity for happiness ... you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

The grateful world is a world of joyful people.

Happy marriage is the greatest wealth a man can possess, and one that a peasant can have as easily as a king.

In Heaven (if there is one), we are held accountable for every joy we failed to taste.

and ah . . . pop my cork, so to speak.

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

Smile, it's free therapy.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it.

Joy is deep satisfaction in the will of God, and this must be coupled with recognizing the reality that God's will is everywhere and in everything. There is no place where we may go and be allowed to murmur or despair because God's will is somehow "not there.

Jesus literally sang as He was preparing to go to the cross. So, the sacrifices that you will make for your children should be something you can sing over. If there is not a song in it, it is not a biblical sacrifice.

In giving a gift, you are attached to it. In receiving a gift, the blessing that comes to the giver is your chief delight.

We are all living along the beach in our miserable little grass huts, and a great tsunami, a huge tidal wave of joy, is heading toward us. Our task is not that of trying to get the tidal wave to come. We cannot make it come any faster, and we most certainly cannot get it to slow down. We declare that it is coming—as the children say, ready or not—and that preparation matters a great deal.

How can an unexamined piety differ from the blind gropings of the fool? What is the hallmark of wisdom in this fallen world? The answer is joy at the end of the tether. But before we can learn joy at the end of the tether, we must learn the strength of that tether. The Lord is God and we are not.

The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.

The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time. The more we say thanks, the more we find to be thankful for. And the more we find to be thankful for, the happier we become. We don't give thanks because we're happy. We are happy because we give thanks.

We do not give thanks because we are happy.  We are happy because we give thanks."   --Douglas Wood

It is fun to have fun but you have to know how.