Quotes About Joy

While the rhythm of running emphasizes a downward motion, the upward motion of skipping defies gravity and elevates my mood in the process.

Love and laughter are the bricks we build our lives out of and the mortar that cements them together.

I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.

I've come to think that if doing something simple or silly can give a person pleasure, then, by God, do it

Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.

You always look on the dark side of life. I believe in capturing the moment...Joy is so fleeting. You never know when it might be snatched away.

Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.

but happiness is to joy as an electric light bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you're happy because of something, it's a condition whose existence depends on external things. Joy, on the other hand, has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.

La felicidad es, respecto a la alegría, como una lámpara eléctrica respecto al sol. La felicidad siempre tiene un objeto, somos felices por algo, es un sentimiento cuya existencia depende de lo exterior. La alegría, en cambio, no tiene objeto. Te posee sin ningún motivo aparente, en su esencia se parece al sol: arde gracias a la combustión de su propio corazón.

I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

take advantage of this beautiful, precious, God's gift of a day.

What's better than loving and being loved?

Because first and foremost, Izzy was marrying Eden Gillman because he wanted her to keep on smiling at him, the way she was smiling at him right now. He wanted to be her hero.

Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!

There is a cycle of love and death that shapes the lives of those who choose to travel in the company of animals. It is a cycle unlike any other. To those who have never lived through its turnings and walked its rocky path, our willingness to give our hearts with full knowledge that they will be broken seems incomprehensible. Only we know how small a price we pay for what we receive; our grief, no matter how powerful it may be, is an insufficient measure of the joy we have been given.

Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say. Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily.

You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive.

Oh, the fun we two have together.

They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it.

Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it... And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.

Hey, Finnick, come on in! We figured out how to make you pretty again!

And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?

In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness. At least a rainbow gives you a tip about the weather.