Quotes About Joy

Pray that He will make you willing to give up everything for the Christlike joy of the Father's constant presence.

We all recognize grief in moments that should be celebrations;

Did you love it, the rain dance every day? Only when it rained.

And there is his three-year-old daughter, who runs around wearing nothing but a rhinestone necklace (who wouldn't, if they could?).

And there is his three-year-old daughter, who runs around wearing nothing but a rhinestone necklace (who wouldn't, if they could?). She is able to count, in English, methodically as a cart climbing uphill, up to the number fourteen—and then the wheels come off: "Twenty-one!" she screams in delight. "Eighteen! Forty-three! Eleventy! Twine!

Life, it's so unlikely," she said, then turned to me again. "It's so much better than we think it is, isn't it?

Less, as with a repentant worshipper, begins again to love his subject, and at last, one morning, after an hour sitting with his chin in his hand, watching birds cross the gray haze of the horizon, our benevolent god grants his character the brief benediction of joy.

Be in love, you will be happy.

Just for the record, happiness is not bullshit. - Arthur Less (character)

We must look for faith (in anything: God or the self or other people or politics or beauty or just about anything else) and structure. We must help the disenfranchised whose suffering undermines so much of the world's joy—for the sake both of those huddled masses and of the privileged people who lack profound motivation in their own lives. We must practice the business of love, and we must teach it too.

when describing children with Down's Syndrome, he called a child 'heart spontaneous'.

I think that while I hated being depressed and would hate to be depressed again, I found a way to love my depression. I love it because it forced me to cling to joy. I love it because each day I decide, sometimes gamely, sometimes against the moment's reason, to cleave to the reasons for living-and that, I think, is a highly privileged rapture.

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

Nirvana occurs when you not only look forward to rapture, but also gaze back into the times of anguish and find in them the seeds of your joy. You may not have felt that happiness at the time, but in retrospect it is incontrovertible.

Forge meaning, build identity and then invite the world to share your joy

Some people can bear a great deal of pain and still experience great happiness, while others are made unrelentingly miserable by less acute pain.

I think that while I hated being depressed, and I would hate to be depressed again, I found a way to love my depression. I love it because it has forced me to find and cling to joy. I love it because each day I decide, sometimes gamely, and sometimes against the moment's reason, to cleave to the reasons for living and that, I think, is a highly privileged rapture.

Some parents manufacture an affirmative construction of their child's disability to disguise their despair, while others have a deep and genuine experience of joy in caring for disabled children, and that sometimes the first stance can generate the second.

The right question is whether, when we undertake the work we believe to be our vocation, we experience the joy and humility that come only when God multiplies our work so that it bears thirty, sixty and a hundredfold beyond what we could expect from our feeble inputs.

Andy Griffiths

Andy Griffiths

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?