There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to laugh and laugh loud.

I feel like spring after winter, and sun on the leaves; and like trumpets and harps and all the songs I have ever heard!

Spend as much time as possible with positive, joyful people and as little time as possible with negative, unhappy people.

Work and happiness are like mother and daughter; work brings forth happiness, but hard work brings forth great happiness!

Jo nevajaga nemaz daudz – kādreiz pavisam nieku. Lai uzrakstītu sev par prieku, dziesmiņu par prieku.

Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows.

This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.

None of us deserve the good things that come our way. It's by grace, love and forgiveness that any of us experience joy.

you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.

You can share in my joy, but I don’t want to share my misery. No, I want to give away my misery. Go ahead, take it all.

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).

It's only when you learn, live and give sincere service that you can experience life's deepest fulfillment and true joy

How wise should we be if, with joyful certainty, we accepted each unfolding of His will as a proof of His faithfulness and love!