Christmas Joy

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

Give your stress wings and let it fly away. - Gerri Guillemets

A turkey never voted for an early Christmas. - Unknown

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

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic. - Rosalind Russell

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

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

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

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

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

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. - Christopher Morley

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

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

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

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. - Kin Hubbard

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

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

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

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. - Phyllis Diller

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

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love, or exercise. - Hans Selye

Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway. - Ryan Sheckler

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

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

All kids are trouble, Edith. And I don't wanna spend my reclining years trying to raise another one. - Archie Bunker

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

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

In today's rush, we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just being. - Eckhart Tolle

You know you're a mom when you go to the store for yourself and come out with a bag of things for your kids. - Unknown

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

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

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

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. - Kahlil Gibran

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

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've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. - Margaret Atwood

Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given blood. - Phyllis Diller

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