Christmas Joy

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

A turkey never voted for an early Christmas. - Unknown

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

Laughter and joy are part of the beauty of life. - Diago Morgado

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

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

I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning. - Dan Aykroyd

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

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

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

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

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. - C S Lewis

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

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

Joy Of Motherhood: What a woman experiences when all the kids are in bed - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased - thus do we refute entropy. - Spider Robinson

I'm not buying my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. - Yogi Berra

All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them. - Earvin "Magic" Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

I still have my Christmas Tree. I looked at it today. Sure enough, I couldn't see any forests. - Steven Wright

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

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

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

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a family all wrapped up in each other. - Bill Vaughan

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. - Erma Bombeck

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

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

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

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car. - Erma Bombeck

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

When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level. - Mario Lemieux

Animals are not our selfie props. If there's any risk that your photo is going to hurt or stress an animal, it's not worth it. - Angela Henderson

Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle. - Neil Armstrong

If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, 'keep away from children.' - Susan Savannah