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Quotes About Joy

She laughed like a little silver bell.
~ Ilona Andrews
Renouard bared his teeth at her, displaying his fangs. Vampires showed their teeth for many reasons: to intimidate, to express joy, to snarl in frustration. But this one was a leer. Look at my teeth, baby. Aren't I amazing?
~ Ilona Andrews
But we almost died today. It made me realize that I deserve some happiness. And now I don't want just fun.
~ Ilona Andrews
What would proceed from a continual promotion of living force, which does not let itself climb above a certain grade, other than a rapid death from delight?
~ Immanuel Kant
Das Lachen ist der Gesundheit zuträglich, denn es fördert die Verdauung.
~ Immanuel Kant
The best thing you've ever done for me Is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all.
~ Indigo Girls
If I have a care in the world I have a gift to bring (Emily Saliers)
~ Indigo Girls
No one quite knew why, but they felt light-hearted. Maybe it was because of the beautiful weather. The sky, so blue, seemed gently to bow down towards the horizon and caress the earth.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
La vida es eso, alegría y llanto.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
there are now only two people on earth who know who he is." He swung a finger back and forth between them. "Us." He squeezed her hands, held her eyes with his. "That's why it's such—joy for me to be with you again. Not just because you're my mother. Because you know who I am, because I don't have to hide the truth from you! And don't you feel something like that toward me? How
~ Ira Levin
One lesson I've learned--worry doesn't change tomorrow, it only robs today of its joy.-Charley
~ Irene Hannon
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
~ Iris Murdoch
What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.)
~ Iris Murdoch
She tasted for the first time honey-sweet and dangerous happiness: dangerous because, as she before long began to learn, precarious.
~ Iris Murdoch
While the light remains,' said Carde, speaking slowly in his high deliberate voice, 'only do not forsake the joy of life. If you shall have given all your kisses, you will give too few. And as leaves fall from withered wreaths which you may see spread upon the cups and floating there, so for us, who now as lovers hope for so much, perhaps tomorrow's day will close the doom.
~ Iris Murdoch
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better. Life
~ Iris Murdoch
Never swim in a rough sea, dear boy, this sea's a killer. But the past refused to come back, as it did in dreams, to be remade. Titus walked in my dreams in the brightness of his youth, which was now made eternal. Or else I dreamed that he was dead and felt joy on waking.
~ Iris Murdoch
Happiness must exist. It can't all be made of pain. But what is happiness made of?
~ Iris Murdoch
Well, everything's nicer when you can think about Christmas.
~ Iris Murdoch
One can't whistle up happiness. It's a gift of nature and I haven't got it.
~ Iris Murdoch
When I am told that a person is happy,' said Nick, 'I know that he is not. Of really happy people this is never said.
~ Iris Murdoch
Uno de los secretos de una vida feliz es la continuidad de los pequeños placeres, y si algunos pueden ser baratos y conseguidos sin demora, tanto mejor.
~ Iris Murdoch
Hand in hand the children began to run homeward through the soft warm drizzle.
~ Iris Murdoch
I did not harbour intelligent doubts about whether Hartley would go on loving me, naturally I knew that she was mine forever. But as we closed our eyes upon tears of joy there was cosmic dread.
~ Iris Murdoch