Quotes About Joy

Laughter is a force for democracy.

O amor, presidindo a ação, insinuava o prazer e o gozo. E confesso, de bom grado, que me persuadi sem dificuldade de que, sem amor, o prazer, por maior e mais perfeito que seja, fica vulgar, sejamos rei ou vagabundo.

A joy without object or reason rose within him, but like all such joys ebbed into frustration almost immediately because he did not know how to express it.

At the Oceana Apartments, he recollects leaving England in triumph, infused with a joy he has not felt in many years. England has reinvigorated them. England has given them hope. But hope is a candle. Hope burns, and then it is gone.

Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.

She laughed loudly. It sounded to her husband like someone pushing a witch in a barrel over a waterfall. He pictured his wife in a barrel falling into very deep water, and this cheered him up a bit.

And I knew, too, that to live a life like Walter Cole's—a life almost mundane in the pleasure it derived from small happinesses and the beauty of the familiar, but uncommon in the value it attached to them—was something to be envied.

There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do. It is really that simple. And that hard.

God made you for His pleasure. And He made you intrinsically needy and dependent on His unspeakable joy. If you are struggling with sin our addiction, don't try to kill your appetite for pleasure. It is impossible. Just direct it to the source of all pleasure. You will be amazed to find that He has perfectly and supernaturally designed you to have all your deepest needs met in Him

Joy is not just a substance or an emotion – it is a person. Christ has become our inexhaustible joy.

Don't look to wine for your stimulation. That leads only in the direction of ruin. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. Let Him exhilarate your soul and even the excess will be turned to joy in the Lord! Then as you speak to one another, the ecstasy will rise still higher. Your tongues will be loosed in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, rather than carousing.

He became sin so you could be holy. He was broken so you could be whole. He was a man of sorrow, so you could have joy. He was bruised for your iniquity. He fasted so you could feast. By His stripes, you were healed. He bore poverty, so you could righteously prosper. He felt orphaned so you could be adopted as sons. Let us begin to see Him not so much as a teacher or moral guide, but as one who stepped in and took our place.

Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

Likewise, it's never just to cause trouble or be intentionally divisive. It's just that fun needs to be recovered to Christendom.

they liked to fancy themselves bubbles of earth. When alone in the fields, with no one to see them, they would hop, skip and jump, touching the ground as lightly as possible and crying 'We are bubbles of earth! Bubbles of earth! Bubbles of earth!' —Flora Thompson, Lark Rise

What makes us happy makes us wise

The things that make us happy," he said, "make us wise.

Celebrations are the juice of life.

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.

You Fill Up My Senses

The gift is you.

I think love and beauty are what life is all about.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee,As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be,To taste whole joys.