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Quotes About Joy

I am in love with this world... I have tilled its soil, I have gathered its harvest, I have waited upon its seasons, and always have I reaped what I have sown. I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.
~ John Burroughs
you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!
~ John Bytheway
The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest.
~ John Bytheway
Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!
~ John Bytheway
Someone with whom you can spend the whole day and never feel bored or lonely. Someone who is the first person you want to tell when something exciting happens to you. Someone you really like.
~ John Bytheway
Elder James E. Faust expressed a similar feeling this way: "Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness" (Ensign, November 1977, p. 11).
~ John Bytheway
Happiness is an inside job.
~ John Bytheway
Sometimes we have 2 Nephi 2:25 "joy" days, and sometimes we have Moses 6:48 "misery and woe" days.
~ John Bytheway
Focusing consciousness without thought into this dark and powerful center of being felt like stepping into a Jacuzzi of joy, and I recalled the ancient Hindu equation sat-chit-ananda, which roughly translates to existence, consciousness, bliss. It is all one and I am that – the incomprehensible and ineffable bliss of being. In
~ John C. Robinson
perhaps, now he finds more joy in life, having survived
~ John C. Wright
Farting, don't think, just fart.
~ John Cage
There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
~ John Calvin
Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.
~ John Calvin
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
~ John Calvin
Let us, however, remember this truth: No one has made much progress in the school of Christ who doesn't look forward joyfully both to his death and the day of his final resurrection.
~ John Calvin
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
~ John Calvin
Christians must outlove, outjoy, outthink, and always welcome those who opposed them.
~ John Charles Pollock
If the Spirit of Christ had come to a man, the "fruit of the Spirit" would appear: "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control";
~ John Charles Pollock
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
~ John Cheever
Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.
~ John Cheever
There is nothing but poetry about the existence of childhood real simple soul-moving poetry the laughter and joy of poetry and not its philosophy and there is nothing of poetry about manhood but the reflection and the remembrance of what has been—nothing more
~ John Clare
I loved thee, though I told thee not, Right earlily and long, thou wert joy of my ever spot theme of my every song.
~ John Clare
O I never thought that joys would run away from boys, Or that boys would change their minds and forsake such summer joys; But alack I never dreamed that the world had other toys
~ John Clare
He who laughs most, learns best
~ John Cleese