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Quotes About Joy

The best remedy for what ails me is being with you here under the sun.
~ Christopher Paolini
She smiled as she looked at the flower.… It was such a tender smile, and so happy, I decided right then that I wanted to make her smile like that again and again and that I wanted to look at that smile until the day I died.
~ Christopher Paolini
La desgracia siempre llega a los que la esperan. El truco es encontrar la felicidad en los breves periodos entre desgracias.
~ Christopher Paolini
I own a book, he thought, delighted.
~ Christopher Paolini
Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.
~ Christopher Pike
When I look at my life, there has been far more pain than joy.
~ Christopher Pike
Where ever I am is paradise because I'm there. I am Joy itself.
~ Christopher Pike
Singing about being rescued will never get old. Never.
~ Travis Thrasher
As the psalmists cry out in joy or grief, they stir us as we identify similar emotions in ourselves.
~ Tremper Longman III
Because you never know when goodness is going to come showering down. Sometimes, it even comes down in buckets.
~ Tricia Springstubb
In this life, so many things can twang your heart.
~ Tricia Springstubb
There are days that should never be. And then, there are days that, oh, if only they could go on forever!
~ Tricia Springstubb
Lift yourself up, plug yourself in, immerse yourself in the wisdom of Torah, and ignite the love and joy within your heart.
~ Tzvi Freeman
I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should be at peace. Who said that peace derives from the contemplation of order, order understood, enjoyed, realized without residuum, in joy and truimph, the end of effort? All is clear, limpid; the eye rests on the whole and on the parts and sees how the parts have conspired to make the whole; it perceives the center where the lymph flows, the breath, the root of the whys...
~ Umberto Eco
living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.
~ Umberto Eco
I lost myself in the contemplation of nature, trying to forget my thoughts and to look only at beings as they appear, and to forget myself, joyfully, in the sight of them.
~ Umberto Eco
Ruh yaln?z gerçeÄŸi düÅŸünürken dingindir; iyi iÅŸlerden sevinç duyar; gerçeÄŸe ve iyi ÅŸeylereyse gülünmez. İsa'n?n gülmeyiÅŸinin nedeni buydu iÅŸte. Gülme kuÅŸkunun k??k?rt?c?s?d?r.' 'Ama kimi zaman kuÅŸkulanmak doÄŸrudur.
~ Umberto Eco
Az életöröm abból az érzésbÅ'l fakad, hogy a vigalom meg a búbánat is csak rövid ideig tart, és jaj nekünk, ha megtudjuk, hogy örök boldogság vár reánk.
~ Umberto Eco
Mutlu insan?n hikayesi olmaz
~ Umberto Eco
The gates of memory would roll open—old joys would stretch out their arms to them, old hopes and dreams would call to them, and they would stir beneath the burden that lay upon them, and feel its forever immeasurable weight. They could not even cry out beneath it; but anguish would seize them, more dreadful than the agony of death.
~ Upton Sinclair
Lanny danced with light feet but a heavy heart; having created patterns in times of joy, he could reproduce them in times of sorrow.
~ Upton Sinclair
Where savage beasts in forest midnight roam, Seeking in sorrow for each other's joy. Even while he was helping to win a war, Lanny hated that war and all others; he hated the lies he had to tell fully as much as those he had to hear. He was a man with a divided mind, and this put him at a disadvantage with men like these Nazis, who were never troubled with doubts and had consigned all scruples to the dustbin of history.
~ Upton Sinclair
Emperor Trajan he read an inscription from those same ancient days and in that same spirit: "To hunt, to bathe, to play, to laugh, that is to live.
~ Upton Sinclair
what we need is not more emotion, but more thought. It is very hard to think; this is a new power that our race has acquired only a short time ago. We find it easy to weep or to rage, to shout for joy or scold in anger; but to think
~ Upton Sinclair