Christmas Joy

The soul is here for its own joy. - Rumi

I love shark week, all kids swim for free. - Josh Stern

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

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

Raising kids is a walk in the park. Jurassic Park. - Unknown

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

Life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death. - Bertrand Russell

With kids, the days are long, but the years are short. - John Leguizamo

Find a joy you like and you add five days to every week. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas. - Robert Englund

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

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. - Psalms 30:5

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

You have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy. - Doug Collins

Water Hazard: Giving the kids too much to drink before a road trip - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth. - Phyllis Diller

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

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

Couch Potato: What Mom finds under the sofa cushions after the kids eat dinner - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Mail your packages early, so the Post Office can lose them in time for Christmas. - Johnny Carson

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I learn things from my kids constantly. Most of their knowledge comes from Snapple caps. - Jimmy Kimmel

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. - Marianne Williamson

Having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father. - Nick Lachey

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

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

Golden Age: When the kids are too old to need baby-sitters and too young to borrow the family car - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

No matter how long we've been together Edith, you still, as the kids say, "turn me over." - Archie Bunker

You know what it's like having five kids? Imagine you're drowning. And someone hands you a baby. - Jim Gaffigan

You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground. - Unknown

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. - Bertrand Russell

I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. - Hartman Jule

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

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. - Bill Gates

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

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

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kids' therapy. - Michelle Pfeiffer