Christmas Joy

One joy scatters a hundred griefs. - Chinese Proverb

A flower blossoms for its own joy. - Oscar Wilde

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. - John Keats

One filled with joy preaches without preaching. - Mother Teresa

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. - Mother Teresa

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

You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary. - Michael J. Fox

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach. - Seneca

Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle. - Bob Phillips

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

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail. - Buffy Sainte-Marie

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. - Emily Dickinson

Surely there can be no greater joy than that of saving souls. - Lottie Moon

Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year. - Victor Borge

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

Each breath in itself is joy if only we try to find bliss in it. - Unknown

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

Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life. - Marilu Henner

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

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. - Joseph Campbell

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

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

Don't postpone joy until you've learned all your lessons. Joy is your lesson. - Alan Cohen

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

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much. - William Shakespeare

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing. - Phyllis Diller

One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen? - Mark Hyman

Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart - a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water - I accept with joy. - Bhagavad Gita

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. - Ed Sullivan

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

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

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

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. - C S Lewis

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

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

The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport. - Kelly Slater