Rediscovering Joy Quotes

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.

The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.

I want to get back and do the things that I loved to do, which were my triples. And I know I could do them.

It's never too late to go out and get that feeling back.

The second that MercyMe stopped being my identity, instead of quitting, I started falling back in love with it.

One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.

Life is so beautiful and special, I can't believe I ever let myself forget that

I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe.

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.

I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

I love the sport of tennis, but I sort of got a little bit away from what I really wanted to do. It became robotic for me, and that's not what I wanted. It's such an amazing sport, and I just really wanted to enjoy it, and I lost that enjoyment and that passion.

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.