Quotes About Joy

The joy in telling a story is in the magic of spinning the tale, not in the number of exaggerations you can create." "So you say. And who's to say I was exaggerating?" "I do." "That's because you're six-foot-plus and more brawn than--" "More brawn than what?" "Than a five-foot-tall woman of undisclosed weight." "Now there's another difference in how I'd tell the story. I'd use the word insufficient to describe your weight.

Being a mother is as beautiful and rewarding as it is painful and devastating. It is the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.

Jonak says to say he send congratulations and well-wishes and all the things he ought—he was so pleased with himself for being an uncle he couldn't sit still to think them out.

Her grin turned into a smile. It looked like a real one.

With vitality, her face became beautiful, and her purring laugh was like a gift.

When you started this engagement farce I thought I was going to hate every minute of it. Instead I loved every minute of it. I loved every minute of being with you. You're bright, sexy, funny, confident, sexy, strong, warm—did I say sexy?

I don't want to be the dark cloud in anyone's day. It's better to be the sunshine than the rain.

Be the sunshine, Eva, not the rain. She never, ever, wanted to be the black cloud in anyone's day.

a wedding is just a party by another name.

Less is more, unless it's love or chocolate.

And in this day and age, we sometimes seem to care more about the record of joy than the experience of joy itself.

I think maybe heaven is a sea of untranslatable jokes. Only everyone is laughing.

dock he shakes a furious shower of rainwater from his ruff. Pete laughs. "Good boy.

I think the only answer is to live life to the fullest while you can and collect memories like fools collect money. Because in the end, that's all you have - happy memories.

That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.

I practically fall on the floor laughing.

In short, Nance, even was you going to the very devil himself, your mother and I would rather see you fly from us in joy, than stay with us in sorrow - and grow, maybe, to hate us, for keeping you from your fate.

my whole life is like a musical

LET ME FILL YOU with my Love, Joy, and Peace. These are Glory-gifts, flowing from my living Presence. Though you are an earthen vessel, I designed you to be filled with heavenly contents. Your weakness is not a deterrent to being filled with My Spirit; on the contrary, it provides an opportunity for My Power to shine forth more brightly.

This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. —PSALM 118:24

Walk with Joy and Peace into this night— and on into tomorrow. These companions will enhance your awareness of Me.

So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. JOHN 16 : 22

When you focus on what you don't have or on situations that displease you, your mind also becomes darkened.

Practice My Presence by practicing the discipline of thankfulness. PSALM 100:4; PSALM 31:14;