Quotes About Joy

Flight is romance—not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.

My two containers, my two soul friends, had come together. I could barely contain my joy. Life was intertwining in wonderful ways.

Free from self-will, aggressiveness, arrogance, anger, and the lust to possess people or things, he is at peace with himself and others and enters into the unitive state. United with Brahman, ever joyful, beyond the reach of desire and sorrow, he has

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else

But our ( fear) or our ( joy) tells us a great deal about the intent of the dog, even if we don't know why we are having that particular, nearly instantaneous, response in the moment of visual input.

Because I'm too old for tragedy. I like a nice happy ending too.

I must not take joy from status or power, but from my accomplishments, and the way I chose to accomplish them.

When you begin to surrender control and let God fill you with His love, with renewed purpose, and with a conscience at peace, then the joy welling up inside you will begin pouring out onto the people in your family aswell.

You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)

G. K. Chesterton: "The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children." And

Good booze, good blues and nothing to do tomorrow. This is actually all anyone needs to be happy.

Take it from me, local government offices are mostly about flexi-time and cake. Cake comes in for birthdays, for house moves, for news of engagements, births, weddings, christenings, driving tests, kids making the cross-country team or passing grade one piano. There is no news too small that it can't be celebrated with chocolate brownies for the whole office.

Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.

Savor your food, make each of your days a delight, bathe and anoint yourself, wear bright clothes that are sparkling clean, let music and dancing fill your house, love the child who holds you by the hand, and give your wife pleasure in your embrace. That is the best way for a man to live.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child

It was those children who became the temporary centers of attention and deference at Christmas, and the joy and gratitude on their faces and in their voices as they opened their presents was a vivid re-creation of the exchange of gifts for goodwill that had long constituted the emotional heart of the Christmas

Joy is in the ears that hear.

And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".

Joy is in the ears that hear, not in the mouth that speaks. The world has few stories glad in themselves, and we must have gay ears to defy Despite" Foamfollower from (Lord Foul's Bane; 1977)