And then , weeks later , I counted , re-counted and jumped for joy.

At age five, this dull task brought me such joy.

But after all, those years, I found that dance was gradually becoming something that felt like more of a burden than a joy.

Dance expresses love and hate, joy and sorrow, life and death, and everything else in between.

In addition to being more in touch with the food she's eating, another joy comes from passing this knowledge and this desire for good food to her children.

It had been the Athenian's pride and joy to give to their city.

Let cooking and living simply be a joy rather than a burden.

Life can be so wonderful, full of adventure and joy.

Love brings more joy to people than work does.

Moments of joy suggest that there is still hope ahead.

My little experiment to find joy in a single object worked for both of us.

Nervousness and fear were replaced with joy.

That relief is coupled with a deep understanding of why the same people keep coming back for more: connecting to the community as you freely give your time, money, skills, or services provides a real joy.

The emotional, physical and mental energy mothers devote to their children can be never-ending, but children are also sources of great joy and happiness.

The joy of getting in touch with foods.

The joy of the vacation in italy.

Upon her return home, Alice was filled with joy at the news.

It's no secret that the Mediterranean diet is healthy, but it was also a joy to prepare and eat.

What distinguishes children from adults is their strong ability to derive joy from what they are doing.

To make that happen, you have to help the child find pleasure in learning—to see school as source of joy.

The more difficult a child's life circumstances, the more important it is for that child to find joy in his or her classroom.

Many of the assignments and rules teachers come up with, often because they are pressured by their administrators, treat pleasure and joy as the enemies of competence and responsibility.

It's their enormous capacity for joy.

It will not be difficult to make learning a source of joy if educators change their way of thinking.

It is human nature to seek joy in life.

In some cases, schools should help children find new, more grown-up ways of doing the same things that are constant sources of joy: making art, making friends, making decisions.

Human lives are governed by the desire to experience joy.

His face went down lower and lower, and then, with complete joy he called out, Dad.

Building on a child's ability to feel joy, rather than pushing it aside, wouldn't be that hard.

Before you brush this argument aside as rubbish, or think of joy as an unaffordable luxury in a nation where there is awful poverty, low academic achievement, and high dropout rates, think again.

Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rather than stringing together nonsense words, for example.

The joy of a recession means no argument next year - we just won't go.

Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rath

Joy should not be trained out of children or left for after-school programs.

To make that happen, you have to help the child find pleasure in learning — to see school as source of joy.

These emotions included interest, joy, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, contempt, and fear.

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense

There is as much joy over a puffed-out first-timer being clapped over the line as there is about top talent shining.