Quotes about Joy
Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.
- Phillips Brooks
Mother Teresa once said, "Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile." ... The last thing many believers need is to go to another Bible study.
- Rick Warren
Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it.
- Erica Jong
Nothing under the sun can be as dry and flat and tedious and exhausting as religious work without the wonder.
- Vance Havner
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
- Victor Hugo
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
- Thomas Merton
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.
- Coco Chanel
What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons.
- Oscar Wilde
Catch the beauty of the moment!
- Leo Buscaglia
What do you think of that? It's stopped raining." I'm glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.
- F Scott Fitzgerald