Quotes About Joy

La inteligencia debe saber reír.

Tomarse las cosas con filosofía no quiere decir tomárselas con resignación, ni tampoco con gravedad, sino tomárselas alegremente.

La felicidad también existe en el presente, en el aquí y ahora del efímero momento que se va volando rápido, sin dar tiempo siquiera de ponerse la mano en el corazón para sentir que sí, que así es, que se es feliz.

La inconciencia o no conciencia es la condición sine qua non para la felicidad.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

Something large and happy has unfolded in my chest, erupting in a smile that won't quit. I can't remember ever feeling so light-hearted. Or is my heart full? Or bursting? Not aching, that's for sure.

There's nothing more satisfying than being stupid with a friend.

It seemed to me that life in America was one long series of festivities, all of them celebrated with merriment and chocolate. The

Where there is sunshine the doctor starves.

our little niece came tearing out to meet us.

Funny is an attitude.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest ' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Life is playfulness... we need to play so that we can rediscover the magical around us.

There Laura spent many happy hours, supposed to be picking fruit for jam, but for the better part of the time reading or dreaming. One corner, overhung by a Samson tree and walled in with bushes and flowers, she called her 'green study'.

People were poorer and had not the comforts, amusements, or knowledge we have today; but they were happier.

There is something exhilarating about pay-day, even when the pay is poor and already mortgaged for necessities. With

The singers were rude and untaught and poor beyond modern imagining; but they deserve to be remembered, for they knew the now lost secret of being happy on little.

La gente era más pobre entonces y carecía de las comodidades, las diversiones y los conocimientos que tenemos hoy en día; y a pesar de todo, eran más felices. Lo que parece sugerir que la felicidad depende en mayor medida del estado de la mente —y quizás del cuerpo— que de las circunstancias y eventos que nos rodean.

Peanut butter is the pate of childhood.

Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - there is nothing small about it.

Perfect self-expression will never be labor; but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.