Quotes about Joy

Joy is not getting what you want. It's fully appreciating what you have. And it starts with the basics, like water.

Don't accumulate possessions, accumulate experiences or vice versa.

The healthiest, holiest, and happiest people on the planet are those who laugh at themselves the most.

Experiences are the currency of a life well lived.

we should listen to most as we choose a vocation is the voice that we might think we should listen to least, and that is the voice of our own gladness. What can we do that makes us the gladdest?…I believe that if it is a thing that makes us truly glad, then it is a good thing and it is our thing."20 I might even add, it's a God thing. If there is a lesson to be learned from Eric

Celebrate what you want to see more of. That's one way to fan into flame the gift of God.

So that's the balance that we want to see—honesty, urgency, and joy. Honesty and urgency with no joy gives us a grim determination (read Philippians). Honesty and joy with no urgency gives us a carelessness about time (read 2 Peter). And urgency and joy with no honesty leads us into distorted claims about immediate benefits of the gospel (read 1 Peter).

Whatsoever we give the supremacy of the inward man to, whatsoever we love most, whatsoever we trust most, whatsoever we fear most, whatsoever we joy and delight most, whatsoever we obey most—that is our god."117 In the end, one's love indicates one's God118—for no human lives without loving.119

Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy must have somebody to divide it with.

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.