Joy Quotes - Page 157

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

God is not an obligation or burden. God is the joy of my life!

We wish the joy of love, the joy of companionship, of being in the company of, in the presence of the person we love, of living a common life with that person, perhaps ultimately the joy of perfect union.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

There is no day more joyful in my life than when I see all my family around me. That's the best it gets.

I think there couldn't be a more perfect time with the state of the world than to come together and share an experience - especially an entertainment experience like This Is Us - to say, "You're different, and I'm different, but we all agree that life should be lived. You should be happy, and we're all deserving of joy."

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

Never let anyone steal your joy.

When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive!

Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health have flown.

Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.

My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon his loving me, whether he would or no. To stop God loving me would be to rob him of his Godhood; for God is love no less than he is truth; as he is good, so is he love as well. It is the absolute truth, as God lives... If anyone would ask me what God is, I should answer: God is love, and so altogether lovely that creatures all with one accord essay to love his loveliness, whether they do so knowingly or unbeknownst, in joy or sorrow.

The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time. Joy, though, is something else. It’s not a choice, not a response to some result, it is a constant. Joy is “the feeling we have from doing what we are fashioned to do,” no matter the outcome.

Seeing the way that God has been faithful to work what appears to be a tragedy for our good and His glory has been the greatest source of joy and comfort. The gift of a son is pretty amazing as well.

Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.

Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams.... A place of peace and harmony... that's the kind of land I invision.

When a man or a woman holds fast to youth, even if successfully, there is something of the pitiful and the tragic involved. It is the everlasting struggle of the soul to retain the joy of earth, whose fleeing distinguishes it from heaven, and whose retention is not accomplished without an inner knowledge of its futility.

If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.

A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.

Being thin is not more important than enjoying life

Nothing brings me more joy than seeing other people's dreams come true.

I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.

Shared laughter is erotic too.

Meditation, stillness, time simply to 'be', to do nothing at all and to do it with joy