Quotes About Joy

Joe learned to view the comic book hero in his formfitting costume, not as a pulp absurdity but as a celebration of the lyricism of the naked (albeit tinted) human form in motion. It was not all violence and retribution in the early stories of Kavalier Clay; Joe's work also articulated the simple joy of unfettered movement, of the able body, in a way that captured the yearnings not only of his crippled cousin but of an entire generation of weaklings, stumblebums, and playground goats.

Bosch had always thought it wasn't a bad way to go—doing what you loved.

Little pieces of grace were everywhere if you looked.

Neither spoke, neither made a sound except for the deep exhalation of breath. First he felt her hips shudder, and soon after he desperately reached up and pulled her down into an embrace as his own body created that one moment that takes all other moments away—all fear, all sadness—and leaves just joy. Just hope. Sometimes love.

Let me tell you something, Mr. L.A. I've been to a place where it doesn't matter what they do to you, where nothing can hurt you. I've been there and back." "Everybody's been to Disneyland, so what?

I see trees of green Red roses, too I see them bloom For me and you And I think to myself What a wonderful world

But the innocence of a child will bring you back and give you the shield of joy with which to protect yourself.

You can become unhinged and cut loose from the world. You can believe you are a permanent outsider. But the innocence of a child will bring you back and give you the shield of joy with which to protect yourself.

Happy is the man who finds refuge in himself.

life is wonderful. its a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air.

She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while.

There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

What he remembers with perfect clarity is sitting on a train headed for Madrid, feeling the sort of happiness he imagines spirits might feel, freed of their earthly bodies but still possessed of their essential selves.

If you live in certain places, in a certain way, you'd better learn to praise the small felicities.

Happiness is believing that you're gonna be happy. It's hope.

Why be so bloody miserable when you can pick up a good book or watch a great television drama?

Er dachte einige Zeit nach. Dann sprach er weiter: Man darf nie an die ganze Straße auf einmal denken, verstehst du? Man muß nur an den nächsten Schritt denken, an den nächsten Atemzug, an den nächsten Besenstrich. Und immer wieder nur an den nächsten. Wieder hielt er inne und überlegte, ehe er hinzufügte: Dann macht es Freude; das ist wichtig, dann macht man seine Sache gut. Und so soll es sein.

To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.

Now he knew that there were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.

Yes, she thought about death because she had discovered something else as well: there are certain treasures that kill you if you can't share them with others.

Sad je znao da ima na tisu?e i tisu?e oblika radosti na svijetu, ali se svi oni svode u biti na jednu jedinu radost, radost što možeš voljeti. Pa i poslije, kad se bio ve? odavno vratio u svoj svijet, kad je odrastao i naposljetku ostario, nikad ga ova radost nije više napustila. I u najtežim životnim ?asovima ostalo mu je to istinsko zadovoljstvo zbog kojeg se i tada smiješio i tješio druge

Fue una fiesta muy divertida, como sólo sabe celebrarlas la gente modesta.

Because now he knew that there were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.