Quotes About Joy

And if the day I die they ask me just how heaven was, I'll be glad I spent it with you.

What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth?--"Wanda

None of us deserve the good things that come our way. It's by grace, love and forgiveness that any of us experience joy.

The joy of life is not a profane type of enjoyment: it reveals the bliss of existing, of sharing in the spontaneity of life and the majesty of the world.

Without conscious rituals of loss and renewal, individuals and societies lose the capacity to experience the sorrows and joy that are essential for feeling fully human. Without them life flattens out, and meaning drains from both living and dying. Soon there is a death of meaning and an increase in meaningless deaths.

Cea dintâi È™i singura esenÈ›ial? datorie a omului este caritatea, adic? o neobosit? justificare a bucuriei existenÈ›ei. A face din viaÈ›a È™i cunoaÈ™terea ta o permanent? bucurie – în pofida tuturor mizeriilor, È™i întunecimilor, È™i p?catelor, È™i neputinÈ›elor, È™i dezn?dejdilor – iat? o datorie cu adev?rat viril?, o datorie a omului È™i a datoriei din tine.

Comedy is life, built big perhaps, but always built true.

Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.

That to truly know happiness is to know the fleeting nature of everything, joy, pain, safety and happiness itself.

They stole it from us. It was. . .our tragedy! Which is our humanity. We need those things. We need tragedy, which is the need to love and the need. . .not just the need, the imperative, the human imperative. . .to experience joy. To find joy and to create joy. All through the night. The fight night.

Maybe she was enjoying a moment in her life, a sliver of light, a flash memory of one of her kids, something sweet and approaching reality.

To be alive means full body contact with the absurd. Still, we can be happy. Even poor old Sisyphus could figure that much out. And that's saying something. You might say that God is an absurd concept but faith in God's goodness. . .I find joy in that. I find it inspiring.

Will carried Zoe on his back and zoomed around on the sidewalk and she laughed and bounced up and down and lost one of her flip-flops so we had to go back and retrace our steps in the dark which I suppose is the meaning of life.

Ona's laughter is the finest, the most exquisite sound in all of nature, filled with breath and promise, and the only sound she releases into the world that she doesn't also try to retrieve.

Em venen ganes de donar-li'n les gràcies, d'abraçar-la. (No, el que en realitat tinc ganes de fer és agafar-la i ballar al voltant del cobert. Quan érem petits, l'agafava darrere de l'estable dels poltres i la portava un tros a coll, corrent, rient, mentre ella em deia que no li esclafés el pit, que li'n fugiria el cor.)

Peace is the substance of life going well. Joy is the substance of life feeling as it should.

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.

The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.

So, have we solved the secret of happiness? I believe so, he said Are you going to tell me? Yes.Ready? Ready. Be satisfied. That's it? Be greatful. That's it? For what you have.For the love you receive.And for what God has given you. That's it? He looked me in the eye.Then he sighed deeply. That's it.

There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.

the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

It's like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, It's just remembering how to enjoy it.