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Quotes About Joy

Comprendía la perversidad de la vida, la de que en la lucha estriba la alegría.
~ Maya Angelou
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
~ Maya Angelou
Their faces shone with the delight of their souls.
~ Maya Angelou
There is nothing more appalling than a constantly morose child.
~ Maya Angelou
Laughter so easily turns to hysteria for imaginative children.
~ Maya Angelou
The Black child must learn early to allow laughter to fill his mouth or the million small cruelties he encounters will congeal and clog his throat.
~ Maya Angelou
Joy is an important element of happiness. It is sometimes the difference between striving and thriving. One must nurture the joy in one's life so that it reaches full bloom.
~ Maya Angelou
And now the work begins And now the joy begins Now the years of preparation Of tedious study and Exciting learning are explained
~ Maya Angelou
Today is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.
~ Maya Angelou
This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.
~ Maya Angelou
Then after the fray, if I see I have vanquished you I would be embarrassed that I have brought all the pain, brought all the joy, brought all the fear, and the glory that I have lived through, to triumph over a single woman who did not know that she should be careful of who she calls out and I would not like myself very much.
~ Maya Angelou
My mother said her friends told her that I had once been seen jumping on the street with my son and playing as if I were a child. She said, "No, she was not playing. She was just being a good mother.
~ Maya Angelou
Dancing liberated me and even made me feel as if my body had a reason to be
~ Maya Angelou
Being a woman is hard work. Not without joy and even ecstasy, but still relentless, unending work. Becoming an old female may require only being born with certain genitalia, inheriting long-living genes and the fortune not to be run over by an out-of-control truck, but to become and remain a woman command the existence and employment of genius.
~ Maya Angelou
I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.
~ Maya Angelou
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly.
~ Maya Angelou
Watch for me and you will see That I'm present in the songs that children sing." People
~ Maya Angelou
In our joy, we think we hear a whisper. At first it is too soft. Then only half heard. We listen carefully as it gathers strength. We hear a sweetness. The word is Peace. It is loud now. Louder than the explosion of bombs.
~ Maya Angelou
Your smile, delicate rumor of peace.
~ Maya Angelou
I keep on dying, Because I love to live.
~ Maya Angelou
Life seems to love the liver of it.
~ Maya Angelou
After a short labor, and without too much pain (I decided that the pain of delivery was overrated), my son was born.
~ Maya Angelou
Seeing you happy is the best gift I could ever ask for.
~ Maya Banks
Can you be happy here, lass?" She smiled and turned her gaze to the beautiful land covered in green and budding flowers. "I am happy wherever you are, husband.
~ Maya Banks