Quotes About Joy

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. (Il n'y a qu'un bonheur dans la vie, c'est d'aimer et d'être aimé.)

Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.

To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive, I guess.

smile first, then speak.

He valued these experiences of joy more than anything else he had known, and he desired, as all who have experienced them desire, to have them again and again. It was this mystical quality that set him apart from other boys. He was surprised by joy. He spent the rest of his life searching for more of it.

a radiant and infectious, almost childlike gaiety which was always bubbling over into delighted and delightful laughter.

The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.

Life is not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.

Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

Life's not the breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

Life isn't about the breathes you take, it's the moments that take your breathe away.

Life's not the breath you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

Live's not the breathes you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

Memory is a wily keeper of the past, usually dependable, but at times, deceptive. Childhood memories are especially slippery. Sweet and so full of joy, they can often be a misrendering of the truth. For a child, that sweetness, out of context and intensely subjective, remains forever real. I know that I will always be haunted by the larger, vaguely remembered reality of the circumstances surrounding my childhood.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.

This makes an American 80-year-old's finishing sprint especially fun, because it can be focused on this fact: To live a long life braided with the life of a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to an imperishable proposition is simply delightful.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it.

The shabbiest tuppeny doll will rejoice a baby's heart for half the year, but your mature gentleman will go yawning his head off at a five-hundred-franc gadget. And why? Because he has lost the soul of childhood.