Quotes About Joy

The thorn is one of the most cursed, and angry, and crabbed weeds that the earth yieldeth, and yet out of it springeth the rose, one of the sweetest-smelled flowers, and most delightful to the eye, that the earth hath. Your Lord shall make joy and gladness out of your afflictions; for all His roses have a fragrant smell. Wait for the time when His own holy hand shall hold them to your nose...

Happy are they who are found wanting.

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Blest hour! it was a luxury to be!

Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud—We in ourselves rejoice!And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight,All melodies the echoes of that voice,All colors a suffusion from that light.

The bride hath paced into the hall,Red as a rose is she.

The guests are met, the feast is set:May'st hear the merry din.

No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.

Please notice when you are happy, sometimes it catches you by surprise.

You're never really alive until you skip a heartbeat, and you don't really skip a heartbeat until you see someone with a smile that lights up the whole room.

You're never really alive until you skip a heart-beat, and you don't really skip a heart-beat until you see someone whose smile lights up the whole room.

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The path of joy involves valuing yourself and monitoring where you put your time.

True joy comes from operating with Inner-directedness and recognizing who you are.

As Charlotte Brontë said, 'Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.' Parts

The F word turns me on, she whispered. The F word? Food He threw back his head and laughed. It rumbled up out of his chest and felt so good it startled him. For the first time in years,his laughter was spontaneous. It wasn`t tinged with bitterness and cynicism.

Heaven is to live a life of freedom

Times like this were special. Memory builders. When something extraordinary happened to a person the kind of things remembered forever after it didn't have to be a life-changing event like a graduation or marriage or birth of a child. It more often was the small things. The sheer joy of summer sunlight on a fragrant flower. The giggle of a toddler. The brush of a lover's fingertips. And the person marks the moment with the flashing insight thinking... This is special. I should remember this

Bright Idea #91: When the weather's bad and your lights go out, have a pajama party. Eat till you feel sick, hula-hoop, paint your faces. Catch fireflies, and dance naked in the rain. If you do, then your bare butt will light up like a firefly after it's been let out of a jar.

It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.

Sudden, he be grinning. Grin like this be bursting at him, happy bigger than his face.

I want to know what's wrong with having wrinkles? What's wrong? Follow along with your own faces. Okay, you see these lines here, these very deep lines I have in my face around my mouth? I got these lines from laughing. I hope you have deep lines in your face from laughing. And I hope they only get deeper.

There's no outside component that you need to be concerned with. You control the light and joy that comes into your life.