Christmas Joy

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside. - Melba Colgrove

Spring adds new life and new joy to all that is. - Jessica Harrelson

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare. - Ed Asner

Joy is one of the only emotions you can't contrive. - Bono

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

Joy shared is twice the joy. Sorrow shared is half the sorrow. - Swedish Proverb

Reality: The leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. - Lily Tomlin

Too much homework can cause stress, depression and even lower grades. - Unknown

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. - Leo Buscaglia

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. - Unknown

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. - Jim Rohn

Silence is golden unless you have kids. Then silence is just suspicious. - Unknown

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. - Natalie Goldberg

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. - Rumi

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

I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives. - Mark Batterson

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. - Hans Selye

We have within us an extraordinary capacity for love, joy, and unshakable freedom. - Jack Kornfield

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. - Alexander Pope

Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa. - Bart Simpson

My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings. - Ozwald Boateng

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale. - Robert H. Schuller

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory. - Robert Brault

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

Zucchini: Vegetable which can be baked, boiled, fried or steamed before kids refuse to eat it - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. - W.A. Nance

I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom. - Eoin Colfer

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. - William Butler Yeats

To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy. - Goldie Hawn

The ideals which have always shown before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty and truth. - Albert Einstein

I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair. - Jarod Kintz

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. - Shirley Temple

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. - William Blake

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still 'about to be'. - C S Lewis

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

I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to hell? - Homer Simpson

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