Quotes About Joy

Because that's what heaven is...it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there.

A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and grief. Beds slept in and meals eaten, and the bliss and pain of the body, and a view of summer leaves from a window on a morning it had rained; the nights of loneliness and the nights of love, the soul in it's body keeping always longing to be known.

Life is a journey, and it's up to us to make the most of it. Let's embrace every challenge, and enjoy the ride.

The key to happiness in life is not to have everything, but to appreciate everything we have. Let's focus on the good and find motivation in the little things.

Life's very precious. You've got to give it 120 per cent. Just celebrate the fact that we're alive and enjoy it.

That made her first bark with laughter, then hoot loudly, ending with a horsey snort. She was a symphony of animal noises.

Danders Anders squealed with joy. The most malodorous sound in the world.

Smiling is not a duty, but a freedom. It's up to you now; you are liberated from the expectations and conformities of youth.

There is nothing gayer than St Catherine's day. Each workroom has its own orchestra … there is one continuous ball.

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.

for happiness, as a rule, is hard to come by:

What a wonderful lotus it is, that blooms at the heart of the spinning wheel of the universe! Only a few pure souls know of its true delight.Music is all around it, and there the heart partakes of the joy of the Infinite Sea.Kabir says: "Dive thou into that Ocean of sweetness: thus let all errors of life and of death flee away.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.