Quotes About Joy

You only live once, why be miserable? Fat people are miserable -- you are carrying 50 lbs on your shoulders all day, you get a disease called "pooped-out itis". Don't tell me that they are happy with the way they look and feel. I have to be honest, that is all I have.

Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.

Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.

It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

We'll have the Jesusiest time ever!

You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.

I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.

I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding.

A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without its dew?

Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.

I am grieved at your sorrow, although it will hereafter be a source of joy unto you. The purest water runs from the hardest rock.

How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.

I've never felt so... light.

Tessa, surprising herself, let out a gasp of laughter. Will looked at her, his mouth just beginning to quirk up in a grin. "I must be more amusing than I thought. Which would make me very amusing indeed.

I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.

How they loved each other, these three, how they had suffered for each another, and yet how much joy they clearly took from simply being in the same room.

Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.