Christmas Joy

Stress makes you stupid. - Unknown

Thank God kids never mean well. - Lily Tomlin

The soul is here for its own joy. - Rumi

The only joy in the world is to begin. - Cesare Pavese

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. - Karl Barth

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood. - Gregory Nunn

Christmas comes, but once a year is enough. - American Proverb

Give your stress wings and let it fly away. - Gerri Guillemets

One filled with joy preaches without preaching. - Mother Teresa

Be willing to access joy in the face of adversity. - C.W. Metcalf

The greatest joy lies not in simply being, but in becoming. - Oprah Winfrey

Kids are life's only guaranteed bona fide upside surprise. - Jack Nicholson

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me. - Rodney Dangerfield

All kids are gifted: some just open their packages earlier than others. - Michael Carr

Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too. - Guy Fieri

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D Roosevelt

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. - Mark Twain

What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude. - Annie Dillard

If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. - Ernest Hemingway

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. - William James

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

A rich person should leave his kids enough to do something, but not enough to do nothing. - Warren Buffett

If 'ifs and buts' were 'candy and nuts', we'd have Christmas every day. - Unknown

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing. - Steven Wright

The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. - John Andrew Holmes

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace, and your soul in the joy of Christ. - Thomas Merton

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

Might make a real good Christmas present for the uninformed. The book is called 'Taking America Back.' - Paul Harvey

Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness. - Floyd W Tomkins

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. - Garrison Keillor

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress. - Gail Sheehy

Only in peace do we have joy. Not by acquiring things, not by doing things, not by earning or learning, but by dedication. - Swami Satchidananda

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. - Buddha

There's no such thing as a soul. It's just something they made up to scare kids, like the bogeyman or Michael Jackson. - Bart Simpson

You know your kids are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. - P.J. O'Rourke

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner. - Ben Bergor

Having kids - the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings - is the biggest job anyone can embark on. - Maria Shriver

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. I do it with adults now. - Mario Batali

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward. - Daniel H. Pink

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry. - Harvey Mackay