Quotes about Joy

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy--one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

They were walking through the March twilight where it was as warm as June, and the joy of youth filled his soul so that he felt he must speak. 'I think,' he said and his voice trembled, 'that if I lost faith in you I'd lose faith in God.' She looked at him with such a started face that he asked her the matter. 'Nothing,' she said slowly, 'only this: five men have said that to me before, and it frightens me.

Fatherhood is wonderful.

Having your house fill up with the people you love is comforting.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?

Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.

Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.