Quotes About Joy

Vivamus atque amemus

Every happiness is a bright ray between shadows, every gaiety bracketed by grief. There is no birth that does not recall a death, no victory but brings to mind a defeat.

Hey man, how's things in Chocolate

some half-dozen children running in the fields or about the wetus—fewer

Well, you must rest, later. You need to be refreshed to greet the Bride Shabbat." She smiled. For a husband and wife to make love on the Sabbath was a commandment, and it was one requirement of the faith that both of them observed with joy.

someone, walking in the white street, looked in at our window, he would have seen in the family tableau a simulacrum of domestic joy.

I can't stand dark and dreariness in a house. We have enough of it in our lives without creating it for ourselves

Nothing is so beautiful as Spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. (From "Spring")

Ik zit, m'n benen bunglend, op de waterkant En in een bootje hoor ik ginds een tango spelen; Verdomd! Ik wist niet, dat er in dit land Nog zoveel aards geluk viel weg te stelen.

If we knew everything about the future with certainty, our lives would be drained of emotion. No surprise and pleasure, no joy or thrill—we knew it all along. The first kiss, the first proposal, the birth of a healthy child would be about as exciting as last year's weather report. If our world ever turned certain, life would be mind-numbingly dull. The

I delight myself in You and Your Word. Because of that, You put Your desires within my heart.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

I was never one of those who collect many smaller joys to make a larger happiness as though putting together a bouquet of flowers. For me there had to be the one great ecstasy, the perfect happiness, a sun which then poured forth its rays of lesser delights. This sun may be at times clouded over, shrouded in fog, hidden by night; yet I know that it remains there, steadfast—a fixed star and not a wandering planet.

But when tomorrow came, the children had more than bread and milk, as you will soon see.

You did right, my dear," said Mr. Alden. "People should have what they want on birthdays.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

They say that life is about balance. That it trades one sorrow for one joy and so forth until it finds some kind of harmony. Well, I want none of it. I've never been as dead as I was when I was balanced. I don't want life to be contained. I want it unbound, inspired. Alive.

Happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure which man possesses.

Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

La felicità non è che il compimento

Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body it's truly love.

Here was a man who wore his scars on the outside and held a merry heart within. How much better that was than its opposite.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.