Quotes About Joy

Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.

There is such joy in chaos. Stow all the world's evils behind a door and tell men that they must never, ever, open the door, and it will be opened because there is pure joy in destruction.

Laughter in battle. That was what Ragnar had taught me, to take joy from the fight.

et le bon temps viendra.

He stood there feeling the sweet poison spread in his veins, confused, growing dizzy with joy and strangeness. He had spread love, but never felt it; shot others, but never wounded himself.

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

Walk through life always with a song

We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

Regarde les étoiles et apprécie, toi, d'être vivante.

Joie : Le devoir de tout homme est de cultiver sa joie intérieure.

She loved going to bed when the sheets had just been changed and inhaling the outside wind and sun and rain on them

Sugar, aint you ever had no good time?' she said with a bit of sadness in her voice. 'What you mean?' Sugar said,... 'Seems to me that I ain't never see you look up from whatever you were doing and just smile.' 'Just smile? Smile at what? At who?' 'Smile into the air, girl!' she said and waved her arm through the air....you better start, 'cause time is running and a life without good times ain't a life worth having.

Love it the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.

Change never come without a fight. And you should know by reading this that joy never come without pain.

Truth was, I was afraid to be. I was afraid that my joy would bring back more bad.

From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.

Das Denken gehört zu den größten Vergnügungen der menschlichen Rasse.

Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.

I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I sit there in the firelight and see them all. The hours that made them were good, and so were the moments that made the hours. I have had responsibilities and work, dangers and pleasure, good friends, and a world without walls to live in.

Then she laughed, a bubbling, deliciously girlish laugh, and the Thing relaxed its hold on her heart, turned up its toes, and died.

Life was meant to be warm and happy and lovely. Life was meant to be a sweet unhampered thing, joyful and gay. It should have everything in it,--wealth and travel and happiness and a career and friends and Allen. And if it couldn't have them all . . . oh, it ought to have Allen. It ought, anyway, to have Allen.... It had been as though in that one brief bitter-sweet moment, she had been swept again into some haven, had become the center of some great plan.