Present Joy Quotes

Cry later, but for now, let's enjoy the laughter.

Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

It's fun right now, and I love it right now, but I don't know where I'm going to be tomorrow, 'cause I'm not psychic. But I know that over the last 10 years, acting has been the only joy, this has been - it's strange to say, 'cause the thinking is off. But this is more important than my hobbies, my family, my love, my friends. It's the most important thing in the world to me.

I perceive we postpone all our joys of Christ, till He and we be in our own house above, thinking that there is nothing of it here to be sought or found, but only hope and fair promises; and that Christ will give us nothing here but tears, sadness, crosses; and that we shall never feel the smell of the flowers of that high garden of paradise above, till we come there. Nay, but I find it possible to find young glory, and a young green paradise of joy even here. We dream of hunger in Christ's house, while we are here, although He alloweth feasts to all the bairns within God's household.

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

He gave her what no one else had ever been able to give. A past to cherish. A present to enjoy. A future to anticipate