Top 100 Child Joy Quotes
#1. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.
Bruce Mau
#2. Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.
Ezra Taft Benson
#3. I tried to be grown up but I have no interest in abiding by the adult rulebook. I want to do fun things that make me happy [ ... ] You might call me a child. Good. For if adults had even the slightest in-the-moment joy of a child then frankly the world would be a better place.
Miranda Hart
#4. You and I should do whatever we can to keep our youthful joy alive. If your life is too predictable, don't go postal. Take a ridiculous ride back to whatever it was that gave you joy as a child. Jump on a trampoline. Saddle up a pony. Give adulthood a rest.
Nick Vujicic
#5. What brings me the most joy is stories about progressive thinking. When a mother or father accepts their child for whoever they are ... when goodness prevails ... blah blah blah. I'm a cheese ball.
Jinkx Monsoon
#6. Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
Craig Claiborne
#7. Never go to sleep with bad thoughts and torturing memories. They will not help you to wake up whole and fully serene - the two states of mind and body without which no man can acquit himself well at his day's task. A child should be ushered into the chamber of sleep with serene joy.
Dhan Gopal Mukerji
#9. Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience.
Constance Zimmer
#10. For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child,
Friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild;
Christ, our God, to Thee we raise this our Sacrifice of grateful praise.
Folliott Sandford Pierpoint
#11. Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness.
Wayne Dyer
#12. As far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me. By the time you get all her herbs together, you're exhausted
Paul Lynde
#13. Those of us with the courage to open ourselves to that much love and not fear it - who can give joy to a dying child until the very end without withdrawing to save ourselves - those are our saints. It is not the martyrs. It is never the martyrs.
Derek Miller
#14. My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.
Maya Angelou
#15. A mothers greatest joy in having a child is to give that child fully and freely to God.
Elizabeth George
#16. It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy.
Julia Child
#17. Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weaknesses are accepted as part of our humanity can our negative, broken self-images be transformed.
Jean Vanier
#18. I prayed in silence that perhaps even now, the queen might have a son and might know joy like this, such a strange, unexpected joy- the happiness of caring for a child whose whole life was in my hands.
Philippa Gregory
#20. The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.
Paul Gauguin
#21. The light of the Christmas star to you. The warmth of home and hearth to you. The cheer and goodwill of friends to you. The hope of a child-like heart to you. The joy of a thousand angels to you. The love of the Son and God's peace to you.
Sherryl Woods
#22. When it comes to the things that bug us most about our child's behaviors or quirks (or about our own, our spouse's, or anyone else's for that matter), joy happens when we stop trying to avoid or fix those quirks, and instead ask God for eyes to see what He intended when He wired them that way.
Laurie Wallin
#23. Teach a child to love his world deeply so that he may find the beauty and joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#24. There is a child-like side to both of them, which makes laughter easy and joy abundant. I envy them that.
Ruth Bailey
#25. There's such joy and fearless in that face, isn't there? It's like the look you see on a child's face before the age of reason sets in.
Alice Steinbach
#26. Quality speaks by itself. Rightly communicated it creates Joy. Like an Infant needs no words to express to her mother. Any success of communication enhances beauty of both, which too needs no words to endorse.
Priyavrat Thareja
#27. A child comes from God, a child
is a gift from God, but a child is
not our possession.
Give the child unconditional love
and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul. The child has its own way.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#28. One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.
Wayne Dyer
#29. You can become unhinged and cut loose from the world. You can believe you are a permanent outsider. But the innocence of a child will bring you back and give you the shield of joy with which to protect yourself. I have learned this late in life but not too late. It's never too late.
Michael Connelly
#30. From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery of the novel and beautiful world awaiting every child comes self-confidence.
E. O. Wilson
#31. Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek, the Fox would say, "Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that is the whole art and joy of words." A glib saying.
C.S. Lewis
#32. A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.
Charles Spurgeon
#33. You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter.
David Gemmell
#34. Each day, the world is made fresh again, holy, and she takes it in, in all its raw intensity, like a young child. She feels something bloom in her chest - joy or grief, eventually they are inseparable. The world is so acutely beautiful, for all its horrors, that she will be sorry to leave it.
Debra Dean
#35. And if you can come through that and still have some connection to your joy you felt when you were a child that's a very mature kind of a joy that I find inspiring. And Jennifer Lowrence has all that in her, and I've watched her have to go through it even in the last few years.
David O. Russell
#36. How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?
William Blake
#37. Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#38. Of course you do, child," said mother. "Families were made to cling together, and stand by each other in every circumstance of life - joy or sorrow. Of course you need your family.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#39. Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.
Oriana Fallaci
#40. The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not; but we can deprive ourselves of its indwelling joy, by acting entirely from the love of self.
Lydia M. Child
#41. Increasingly, the girl child is becoming an endangered specie as
pedophiles' continue to roam free in our societies terrorizing
the lives of our children and stripping them of all the joy and
excitement that comes with childhood.
Oche Otorkpa
#42. Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure, paint the foreground of his life.
Samuel Smiles
#43. Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying
David Sheff
#44. As a child, we let go of the past easily but not as an adult. As a child, we changed one grade after another without complaints and with eagerness, but now we are changing our grade every day, but without joy and with great dismay.
Debasish Mridha
#45. There are moments of the most crazy all-encompassing joy. What a phenonenally beautiful kid. A funny, dear child. Kind and open and loving.
Elisa Albert
#46. Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse.
Jennifer Worth
#47. One of the greatest joys in life is watching a child laugh
Demi Lovato
#48. No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.
Charles Francis Richter
#49. The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men, for we are, that we might have joy, and be free.
Bryant McGill
#50. Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so full of laughter and joy, I associate the two. Even my concept of Jesus goes along with this association of happiness and religion.
Minnie Pearl
#51. He's like a child, but without a child's capacity for joy.
Eva Heller
#52. I think that comedy is a good defense for a child. Because you know childhood is a nightmare as it is. And so why not use comedy and being funny as a defense to get through your life as opposed to drugs, alcohol and good looks? Because those things are dangerous when your young.
Joy Behar
#53. The true creator-self is a light-at-heart and care-free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.
Bryant McGill
#54. Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.
Mason Cooley
#55. friends, and, of course," - he glanced toward their sleeping daughter - "the love of a father and mother for their child. All these taken together, with all the joy and pain that they confer - that can save us, surely. Love of life, Alix. You have it. And since I've found you, so do I.
Linda Barlow
#56. IN MOST FAMILIES, there is a favorite child. Parents deny it and maybe they truly don't see it, but it's obvious to the children. Unfairness bothers children greatly. It's hard to always come in second.
Karen Joy Fowler
#57. Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.
Jose Rizal
#58. Don't walk too far away from the child within you, and never abandon the sense of wonder that magnifies the smallest of things into mountains of joy. For one day, when you lose sight of happiness, that child within can guide you back to the things that once nourished your heart.
Dodinsky
#59. There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#60. Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.
Menachem Begin
#61. A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.
Pope Francis
#62. We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy.
Desmond Tutu
#63. From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
Alfred North Whitehead
#64. Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.
John McCain
#65. The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species
Johann Gottfried Herder
#66. There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
Victoria Jackson
#67. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Carson
#68. The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
Julia Child
#69. If I were capable of human emotions, tears of joy would have been streaming down my face. You know that feeling you experience upon witnessing the birth of your first child? It was like that, only a thousand times better, because free burritos were involved.
Nathan Rabin
#70. Kahneman found that when counting moments of joy and moments of drudgery, bringing up a child turns out to be a rather unpleasant affair.
Yuval Noah Harari
#71. When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four sons, who have brought me immense joy, that I began to thaw. That I realised how utterly extraordinary my childhood was.
John Le Carre
#72. Remember, you're the most loving child of this universe. Universe has to wait billions of years to get impregnated with you. You are the joy and creator of your universe.
Debasish Mridha
#73. I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.
Michael Jackson
#74. The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy in him.
Anonymous
#77. Old soul cries through the tears of a newborn
Munia Khan
#78. Selfishness makes Christmas a burden;
Love makes it a delight.
The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas.
William Carey Jones
#79. I think of how emotions seem so magnified when you're a child.
Joy is more all-encompassing, disappointments more crushing, hope more
palpable.
Emily Giffin
#80. Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.
Donald Wuerl
#81. Any child who is self-sufficient , who can ties his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.
Maria Montessori
#83. People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can't see the joy of your previous life.
John Walsh
#84. A child screams with joy and a child screams with pain, and the difference is in the timbre of that scream. Decibels of joy strike the inner ear differently from those of pain.
Fred D'Aguiar
#85. But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible
Adriana Trigiani
#86. One of the nicest things you can do to kick-start your children's day is to tell them honestly they look nice as they head out the door. This easy, five-second exchange says to your child: I see you; I notice you; I love you.
Molly Friedenfeld
#87. No matter what the climate is, what the troubles are, what the difficulties are, there is joy for the child of God, because joy is produced supernaturally by the Holy Spirit in us.
Billy Graham
#88. All over now. He is either in joy or nothingness.
(So why grieve?
The worst of it, for him, is over.)
Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing.
George Saunders
#89. If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.
Joy Bryant
#90. I told him what I thought and he suddenly leapt into the air with joy, like a child: 'Also, wirklich, gut?' [So it was really good?]. Such a titan, and so unsure of himself.
Sviatoslav Richter
#91. The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world.
Janet Gonzalez-Mena
#92. Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear in it; it reaches out with acceptance, for there is no doubt in it; it reaches out as a child for there is no uncertainty about it.
Ernest Holmes
#93. I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.
Isadora Duncan
#94. And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.
William Blake
#95. Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow older, you will contribute something else to this world, and only you can discover what that is.
Sharon Creech
#96. As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.
Richard Louv
#97. In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#98. When the world was young, the gods and goddesses birthed the angels, Joy and Greed, Beauty and Empathy and Sorrow, Fear and Fury, sparks of humanity. To feel emotion, therefore, to be human,
is to be a child of the gods.
Marie Lu
#99. You are the loving child of this universe, she is always eager to help you, your joy is her happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#100. Destruction is creation. Become as a little child. Language as space, a kind of mathematical notation, geometric locations in the lab of memory. Reading. Maps. Codes, substitutions, the secret names of things. The glorious inrush of a word. The joy of chatter. Every color's wavelength, by number.
Kim Stanley Robinson
