Quotes About Joy

If only there was enough space on this tiny card to evoke my unfettered joie de vivre for what you have done. The gaiety, the mirth, the heavenly bubbling of every effusive cell that sings inside me for your kind and pithy offering.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. Aeschylus

The extremists had declared jihad against anyone and anything that challenged their vision of a pure Islamic society, and these artifacts - treatises about logic, astrology, and medicine, paeans to music, poems idealizing romantic love - represented five hundred years of human joy. They celebrated the sensual and the secular, and they bore the explicit message that humanity, as well as God, was capable of creating beauty. They were monumentally subversive.

The joy of intimacy is the reward of commitment.

Probably. Parents are engineered to be proud.

I know in whom all my highest hopes and dearest joys are centered. I know in whom my whole heart can rest — so sweetly and so surely.

This approach is not about acquiring more self-discipline or willpower. It's about personally discovering what nourishes you, what feeds you, and ultimately what makes your life extraordinary.

Do not worry yourself so much. Take joy in things that are joyful, there is no harm in that.

If I can leave you with a bit of advice, it is to never stop living and growing and learning, both together and separately. Life comes with only one guarantee - it will not last forever. Embrace every day and know that there is never a shadow so dark that some joy can't find its way through if you let it. Like a quilt, life comes together one piece at a time, and it takes some patience before you can stand back and proclaim it a masterpiece.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

Happiness is making your dreams come true.

The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.

Happiness is a choice. It's up to you to create your own joy and fulfillment.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.

Aunt Emily's writing is as wispy and hard to decipher as the marks of a speed skater on ice.

Shooting felt good. Joy consists in this, after all, the increase of one's power.

He said, "We are all asleep and dreaming, you know. If we could ever actually comprehend our true position, we would not be able to bear it, we would have to find a way out." The girl nodded. She was embarrassed.

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

Memory is the resurrection. The dead move among us the living in our memory and that is the resurrection.

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.