Quotes About Joy

On s'en va parce qu'on a besoin de distraction et l'on revient parce qu'on a besoin de bonheur.

Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

THE SUPREME HAPPINESS IN LIFE IS THE CONVICTION THAT WE ARE LOVED V. HUGO

El exceso del dolor como el exceso de la alegría, es una cosa violenta que dura poco: el corazón del hombre no puede durar mucho en un extremo.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved

She went back down to the garden, feeling like a queen, hearing the birds sing—this was in winter—seeing the sky all golden, the sun in the trees, flowers among the shrubs, bewildered, wild, giddy with inexpressible rapture.

Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment

Le suprême bonheur dans la vie,c'est la conviction qu'on est aimé..

Chantez, riez; soyez heureux, soyes célèbres; Chacun de vous sers bientôt dans les ténèbres. Sing, laugh; be happy, be famous; Each one of you will soon be in the darkness.

He felt as though his brain were on fire. She had come to him, what joy! And then, how she had looked at him! She seemed more beautiful than ever before. Beautiful with a beauty that combined all of the woman with all of the angel, a beauty that would have made Petrarch sing and Dante kneel. He felt as though he were swimming in the deep blue sky. At the same time he was horribly disconcerted, because there was dust on his boots.

As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.

Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps.

He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because he was free.

Melancholy is a twilight. Suffering melts into it in sombre joy.

The poor man shuddered inside, flooded with an angelic bliss; he told himself in a burst of joy that this would last all his life; he

the goodness of the mother is written in the gayety of the child;

The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child.

Kebahagiaan terbesar di dunia ialah merasa yakin kita dicintai.

To love, or to have loved,—this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a fulfilment

It was like a hand which had opened and thrown suddenly upon her a handful of sunbeams.

the goodness of the mother is written on the gaiety of the child.

Children have their morning song as well as birds.

Sono questi gli effetti dell'amore, dell'infanzia, della gioventù, della gioia. La novità della terra e della vita c'entra per qualche cosa. Nulla è incantevole come il riflesso colorante della felicità sulla soffitta. Tutti abbiamo nel nostro passato una soffitta azzurra.

Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was a private and social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil a domestic solemnity, that gayety, even in excess, provided it be honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the household should thenceforth have its nuptial chamber as its witness. And