Quotes About Joy

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Nothing must happen to you. No, what am I saying. Everything must happen to you, And it must be wonderful.

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

that the only thing on earth worthy of fear is a situation that is petrified, congealed, or dying, and the only thing worthy of joy is a situation where not only the individual but also society as a whole wages a constant battle for self-justification.

For thirty-five years now I've been compacting old paper and books, living as I do in a land that has known how to read and write for fifteen generations; living in a onetime kingdom where it was and still is a custom, an obsession, to compact thoughts and images patiently in the heads of the population, thereby bringing them ineffable joy and even greater woe; living among people who will lay down their lives for a bale of compacted thoughts.

Every beloved object is the center of a garden of paradise.

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the only thing worthy of joy is a situation where not only the individual but also society as a whole wages a constant battle for self-justification.

living in a onetime kingdom where it was and still is a custom, an obsession, to compact thoughts and images patiently in the heads of the population, thereby bringing them ineffable joy and even greater woe; living among people who will lay down their lives for a bale of compacted thoughts.

Once, for three hundred crowns, I became a saint for an instant: I bought up all the goldfinches, then released them from my hand. Oh, what a feeling when a terrified little bird flies from your palm to freedom!

Everything has its own torture chamber, but also its own paradise.

and, oddly enough, playing with his baby seems to renew his strength, though not so much the strength in his arms as the strength in his soul.

I cannot avoid seeing the so-called dreamworld of life with all its challenge, suffering, joy, and possibility. I feel we know and live in two worlds: infinite consciousness and ordinary expressions of material life. To me, we are the wondrous expressions of form within a timeless, unlimited vastness.

There was only joy, awe, and amazement.

There's a giddiness to being in that water," Kim observes. "It connects with a playfulness that we forget about as adults.

Swimming is a way for us to remember how to play.

Love will have its day.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

It's not only joy as an act of defiance; it's business as usual as an act of defiance. This is just: Do your thing.

ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We're a life cult. Rock 'n' roll is a life force, and it's joy as an act of defiance.

It's a beautiful day... Don't let it get away.

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind (surprises) if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life -- that is, tries to make each day reach as nearly as possible the high-water mark of pure, unselfish, useful living. I pity the man, black or white, who has never experienced the joy and satisfaction that come to one by reason of an effort to assist in making someone else more useful and more happy.