Quotes About Joy

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?

Spring is made of solid, fourteen-karat gratitude, the reward for the long wait. Every religious tradition from the northern hemisphere honors some form of April hallelujah, for this is the season of exquisite redemption, a slam-bang return to joy after a season of cold second thoughts.

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

When I'm in a blue mood, I head for the kitchen. I turn the pages of my favorite cookbooks, summoning the prospective joyful noise of a shared meal. I stand over a bubbling soup, close my eyes, and inhale. From the ground up, everything about nourishment steadies my soul.

A red-tailed hawk rose high on an air current, calling out shrill, sequential rasps of raptor joy. She scanned the sky for another one. Usually when they spoke like that, they were mating. Once she'd seen a pair of them coupling on the wing, grappling and clutching each other and tumbling curve-winged through the air in hundred-foot death dives that made her gasp, though always they uncoupled and sailed outward and up again just before they were bashed to death in senseless passion.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

The jacaranda in the courtyard has put on its bloom. This purple can't be ignored, it's like a tree singing. The walk down Londres Street to the market is a concert: the small jacaranda on the the corner hums the tuning note, then all others in the lane join in.

People buying apples and green beans usually have some degree of joy in their hearts.

Over the phone, her laughter sounded like a warm bath.

It's also interesting how it's hard to be depressed around a three-year-old, if you're paying attention. After a while, whatever you're mooning about begins to seem like some elaborate adult invention.

I avoided the emplyee smoking room aka drug-exchange HQ, and found no real downside to the job [in the produce department]. People buying apples and green beans usually have some degree of joy in their hearts. -p. 513

Nothing was more wonderful than waiting for a happiness you could be sure of.

I avoided the employee smoking room aka drug-exchange HQ, and found no real down side to the job [in the produce department]. People buying apples and green beans usually have some degree of joy in their hearts. - p. 513

bandicoots, Carruth. They'll be wanting their happy

Tata Jesus is bangala!

Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, i have taught myself joy, over and over again.

I believe I'm very happy.

they'd shared an exuberance that eventually suffocated under tenure applications and mortgages. This was not a new story. Maybe Iano still had access to that kind of joy, but she'd surrendered it as her half of the marital bargain.

Overjoyed, null and void, mongoloid. I still have a fellow feeling for that almond-tasting word. Oh, but it did unsettle the matrons of Bethlehem to see the poor thing boosted into a class ahead of their own children, there to become dazzlingly slick-quick at mathematics.

playground! And so Mrs. brought me here to get

you to sit with the bridesmaids at

attract more friends, and extend life. Humor heals.

enjoyed both places. But it's nice

carried a nosegay of summer flowers. Winston