Quotes about Joy

Many people are driven by materialism. Their desire to acquire becomes the whole goal of their lives. This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.

It is usually meaningless work, not overwork, that wears us down, saps our strength, and robs our joy.

Albert Schweitzer said, "The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.

He wants you to enjoy life, not just endure it.

it's easy to forget that the pursuit of happiness is not what life is about.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy.

We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means.

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.