Quotes about Joy
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.
- Mother Teresa
Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.
- Margaret Atwood
Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
- Mother Teresa
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
- Mark Twain
As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.
- Julian of Norwich
Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.
- Tina Fey
What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
- St. Therese of Lisieux
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Albert Einstein
Love who you are and what you are and what you do. Laugh at yourself and at life and nothing can touch you.
- Louise Hay
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.
- Walter Rauschenbusch