Quotes About Joy

Only when the greatest pleasure in your life is the knowledge that God is pleased by the way you are living can you handle pleasure properly.

The joy or complaint of your heart always shapes your willingness to trust God and to do his will.

The DNA of joy is thankfulness. Have you noticed that entitled, complaining people don't happen to be very joyful?

If you find more joy in serving God than yourself, you know that grace has entered your door, because only grace has the power to rescue you from you.

solo cuando Su trono es más importante que el tuyo que vas a encontrar gozo en la difícil y humillante tarea del ministerio evangélico. Y Su gracia no se va a rendir hasta que nuestros corazones hayan sido completamente cautivados por Su gloria. Ahora bien, ¡ésa es una buena noticia!

Smellin' the beefaloes and leanpigs turnin' on their spits, holding a cold cheer-beer in my hand, watchin' the stars poppin' out one by one like random pixels on God's antique monochrome display, listenin' to the joyful chatter of my fellow gips, contemplatin' the easy job ahead of me, I was as near to heaven asI have ever been on this mostly sad ol' earth.

To be truly happy, then, you need to feel both pleasure and purpose. You can be just as happy or sad as I am but with very different combinations of pleasure and purpose. And you may require each to different degrees at different times. But you do need to feel both. I call this the pleasure-purpose principle—the PPP.

Mig would be happier if he found something purposeful to do (in exchange for some of his fun stuff) and Lisa would be happier if she had a little more fun (in exchange for some of her time spent feeling purposeful).

I'll show that the key to happiness is finding pleasure and purpose in everyday life.

If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.

Kittens can happen to anyone.

As long as she had flowers, Mrs Harris had no serious complaints concerning the life she led. They were her escape from the sombre

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

Soyez amoureuses vous serez heureuses

All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.

Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy.

Can you imagine my joy at the feasibility of the general covariance with the result that the equations of the perihelion movement of Mercury prove correct? I was speechless for several days with excitement. (Einstein to Ehrenfest)

I didn't suffer for Jesus in prison. No! I was with Jesus and I experienced his very real presence, joy, and peace every day. It's not those in prison for the sake of the gospel who suffer. The person who suffers is he who never experiences God's intimate presence.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy.

his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration — there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not look at him because she did not want to be in his presence. She hated him and he (how could he not?) hated her in return.

Snow harder! Snow more! Snow blizzards galore! I can't get enough Of the fluffy white stuff! Snow! Snow! Snow! Snow a ton! Snow a heap! Snow ten feet deep! I wouldn't cry If it snowed til July. Snow! Snow! Snow!

Happy Easter to you, my friend! This day's light shall have no end. For Christ did rise In the golden morn And by His life are we reborn. Happy Easter to one and all! The night is over, the sun is tall. The day did break with a tiny beam And flooded life with Light supreme.

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life! A crust and a corner that love makes precious, With a smile to warm and the tears to refresh us; And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter; And that is life!