Quotes About Joy

She had an invisible friend, a giant stuffed bear she called Ben. What kind of kid has an imaginary friend that's a stuffed animal? She collected hair ribbons and arranged them in alphabetical order by color name. She was the kind of girl who exploited her cuteness with such joy you couldn't begrudge her.

I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and making faces, and I would try to do that too, but I wouldn't understand why. I would sit there with the tight elastic thread of the birthday hat parting the pudge of my underchin, with the grainy frosting of the cake bluing my teeth, and I would try to figure out why it was fun. With Nick, I understood finally. Because he was so much fun. It was like dating a sea otter.

But I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.

Not that love is a competition. But I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.

Penny beamed so widely, her smile threatened to completely encircle her head and split it in two.

Until we're pushing up daisies, it might be good to remind ourselves daily that everything's coming up roses — for me and for you.

We all enter this world crying. Laughter is something we have to learn

The greatest feeling is to have somebody that's so happy to see you.

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And there was her miracle.

when the inner garden is under cultivation and God's Spirit is present, harvests are regular events. The fruits? Things like courage, hope, love, endurance, joy, and lots of peace.

Whenever I see her, we laugh enough to last for the month. She's my best friend, and someday when we're old enough I'm going to talk her into staying here forever.

She's my friend, the boy said simply. That's who she is and that's enough for me. As Minli looked at the buffalo boy, aglow with happiness against his poor surroundings, she saw it was enough for him. More than enough, as the smile that kept curling up on his face told her.

So, as the old woman held the new baby tenderly, she rained tears of sorrow and joy upon it, and the baby's first bath was the unusual mixture of love and loss. For

At one with the One—it didn't mean a thing beside a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.

Focus on the journey not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

the end, only you can make you happy.

Your happiness is the most important thing in this life. If you are not happy, you are of no use to anyone else.

Often sweeps Death. The houses of living, A menial task, That brings into her fair, dark eyes. A sparkle of joy. At the little things she finds there.

You must dance, and you must take lovers, and you must be happy when you are able, or you will wither.

she'd discovered three with their programs intact; one of them, to her delight, had been a flight simulator.

a negative soul who made a point of slicing the joy from any possible moment with her razor of a tongue.

It is the most fundamental reason why each of us exists. Scripture calls it "abiding in Christ" (John 15:4; cf. 1 John 4:16). God's desire is for us to participate in his own eternal love and life and therefore in his own eternal joy and peace by dwelling in the Son.