Quotes About Joy

A huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders, as if a rock has rolled off my soul. No. As if I pushed it off, and stand blinking in the sun.

My darlings, I give you this wedding wish: may your wedding day not be the happiest day of your life. May those be the simple days, the ordinary days when the sky looks so pretty, or your baby smiles at you, or your spouse laughs at your joke, and your heart is filled with simple and pure contentment. And may those days number in the thousands.

they were just normal, and they were enjoying that elusive state of simply BEING...

I'm trying not to wet myself with excitement," I murmur back. "It's harder after having the triplets.

After all, how many days like this do you get in life? How often can you really be free, alive...weightless? That's the problem with perfect moments. They end.

He laughed and my ovaries frothed with eggs.

Blue rolled onto his back, letting them know he was available for tummy-scratching any time.

I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.

Like joy's brooch you brought back to us, they always fine their way home. These brooches are curious things. More curious than you know. New riders Will be called to the service, and they Will wear these same brooches. With the brooches they Will discover new talents and use them. Ween they retire from the service, or die, the brooch Will call out to someone new. It has always been this way.

Maybe she's a mud puddle nymph," Carmen snickered.

My best friend just had a baby, and she's my age. So I'm a godmom now, which is crazy.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.

Running is a grownup's lost link to playing outside.

I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.

Jack came whirling in like a little gay tornado with Duchess following him.

And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly...

Terrible beautiful combination of happiness and pain.

We fought, we struggled, we hurt each other, so what? That's what love is, I think. It's all of it. Tears, anger, joy, struggle. Mostly, it's durable. It lasts.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.