Quotes About Joy

Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world, do they?

I get along very well with the cast of '30 Rock.' I guess I bring a certain quirkiness to the show as well. I'm just thankful they keep asking me. I didn't think I was going to be asked back so every time they say, 'We want you back ' I'm screaming. I'm jumping up and down and screaming.

Through the thick and thin of it all, it is with every harmless personal dare that I have found my greatest happiness.

Underlying this apparent impasse is the perception that the alteration of things will be destructive for both partners: the speaker is "transfixed/by your eyes cold blue thumbtacks". But she also knows that "there is no joy" in the game, and that she wants "the circle/ broken", regardless of the cost.

Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

When you are happy, you are sexy

Once you start laughing, you start healing.

She felt as if she'd been hugging puppies all day.

She left the bed, pulled up a chair nearby, and resumed her knitting. He grinned with that same glee and put on a grown-up expression only when she looked up. But she'd seen his delight, and for a moment, he thought he again saw that smile in her eyes. His heart floated.

This time he forgot everything. He only stood and stared. That smile. Christ, that smile. He recognized it by the wave of ecstatic joy that all but knocked him flat on his back. Had he though himself incapable of happiness in a sustained basis? He was wrong — and how. He could never have enough of this sweet elation. He wanted to splash in it, swim in it, drink it by the gallons, until nothing but bliss pulsed in his veins. The girl of his dreams. He had met her at last.

Underneath every detail of her life was a history of oppression. And yet she'd emerged not only with her spirit intact, but with a capacity for joy that he had only begun to understand. That he would now never truly know.

Burl Ives singing children's songs.

For him, mastery of the game world is a source of joy.

Seeing things through your eyes has reminded me how important it is to stop and find the joy in living again.

So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.

there's no place else I'd rather be.

To be human is to struggle. Eventually we realize that when we sit under the umbrella of "shoulds" — "This shouldn't be so hard. I should be happy." — the pain rains down harder. But when we accept the fact that anxiety, depression, loneliness, powerlessness, grief, joy, and exhilaration are all part of the design, we step out into the rain and perhaps even dance a little.

We avoid pain because we live in a culture that teaches us to avoid pain. We avoid pain because we don't know that turning toward pain — and I use pain as an umbrella term for anything uncomfortable that we wish to avoid feeling — is one of the secret pathways to joy.

To me, the most important thing is happiness.

I cannot live without children.

Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.

May the stars shine bright above you, May the sun warm you, And the world hold you softly. May your thoughts and needs be as one, For all time, Your joys and conquests as one, In this world and forever. Then all the cats gathered around closer, clowder cats and village cats leaping up on the boulder, purring

You prepare as best you can for the bad times- then live every moment with joy.

You've got to S-M-I-L-E To be H-A-Double-P-Y