Quotes About Joy

Mais ces soucis étaient pour demain, pour tout à l'heure. Vivre les malheurs d'avance, c'est les subir deux fois. Le moment présent était un moment de joie, il ne fallait pas l'empoisonner.

I took a little celebrational nap.

When we had our children, our ideas changed somewhat. Thenceforward we lived only for them; they made all our happiness and we would never have found it save in them. In fact, nothing any longer cost us anything; the world was no longer a burden to us. As for me, my children were my great compensation, so that I wished to have many in order to bring them up for Heaven.

Someone to share his life with, who would greet him with a smile and a kiss, and a toddler to tackle him around the knees. Not much by today's standards, but everything by his own.

Giddy with a sense of liberation

To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse—the cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Here is a boy who was waiting to be punished. But then, unexpectedly, he finds that his fault has been overlooked or forgiven and at once the world reappears in brilliant colors, full of delightful prospects. Here is a soldier who was waiting, with a heavy heart, to suffer and die in battle. But suddenly the luck has changed. There is news! The war is over and everyone bursts out singing! He will go home after all!

Voir s'achever le temps de l'angoisse et de la crainte ! Voir se lever puis se dissoudre les nuées lugubres suspendues au-dessus de nous — ces sombres nuages qui attristent le cÅ"ur et réduisent le bonheur à un vague souvenir ! Rares sont les êtres qui n'ont jamais éprouvé cette joie-là.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Happiness is a choice. It is not always an easy one.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

Jonahtan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short,and with these gone from his thought,he lived a long life indeed.

In order to live free and happily,    you must sacrifice       boredom.                    It is not always an easy                       sacrifice

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one famiy grow up under the same roof

Tikr?j? tavo šeim? sieja ne kraujo ryšys, o pagarba ir džiaugsmas, kuriuos randate vienas kito gyvenime. Vienos šeimos nariai retai išauga po tuo pa?iu stogu.

Soon as you realize you're immortal," he said, "declare the power of Love even when it seems invisible, you'll go far beyond the illusions of space and time. In all history, the one power you never lose is your power of letting go of space and time, the joy of dying that is no wicked thing, it comes in love, to everyone.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

pero la velocidad era poder, y la velocidad era gozo y la velocidad era era pura belleza

for the love of God, if you want freedom and joy so much, can't you see it's not anywhere outside of you? Say you have it, and you have it! Act as if it's yours, and it is!

Because fear is ugly and joy is beautiful, simple as that? Maybe so. Nothing so pretty as vanished fear.

O, korkuyu yenmenin gururuyla, haz alarak ya??yordu.