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Quotes About Joy

San?r?m iki insan?n hem gülmesi hem seviÅŸmesi, güldükleri için seviÅŸmeleri ve seviÅŸtikleri için gülmeleri pek az rastlan?r bir durumdur. Sevmek ve gülmek hep ayn? yerden gelir de, o noktaya pek çok kiÅŸi eriÅŸemez.
~ James Baldwin
I remember what it was like...to be young, very young. When everything, touching and tasting-everything- was so new, and even suffering was wonderful because it was so complete. James Baldwin
~ James Baldwin
I thought she would be fun to have fun with.
~ James Baldwin
I guess it can't be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they're making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there.
~ James Baldwin
I feel in myself now a faint, a dreadful stirring of what so overwhelmingly stirred in me then, great thirsty heat, and trembling, and tenderness so painful I thought my heart would burst. But out of this astounding, intolerable pain came joy; we gave each other joy that night.
~ James Baldwin
Out of joy strength came, strength that was fashioned to bear sorrow: sorrow brought forth joy. Forever? This was Ezekiel's wheel, in the middle of the burning air forever -- and the little wheel ran by faith, and the big wheel ran by the grace of God.
~ James Baldwin
O riso e o amor vêm do mesmo lugar: mas pouca gente vai lá.
~ James Baldwin
The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there.
~ James Baldwin
I guess it can't be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they're making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there.
~ James Baldwin
Fonny is working on the wood, on the stone, whistling, smiling. And, from far away, but coming nearer, the baby cries and cries and cries and cries and cries and cries and cries and cries, cries like it means to wake the dead.
~ James Baldwin
And if it's children you're after, well, you can do that in five minutes and you you haven't got to love anybody to do it. If all the children who get here every year were brought here by love, wow! baby, what a bright world this would be!
~ James Baldwin
It's a miracle to realize that somebody loves you:
~ James Baldwin
she seemed to be wearing the sunlight, rearranging it around her from time to time, with a movement of one hand, with a movement of her head, and with her smile—
~ James Baldwin
How strange and beautiful—it must be one of the few real reasons for remaining alive, of desiring to—to dance with your daughter, your son, and your wife; touching, really digging it, laughing, and keeping the beat, free
~ James Baldwin
I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.
~ James Boswell
A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.
~ James Carlos Blake
Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it.
~ James Clavell
Isn't it only laughter we can stay human?
~ James Clavell
I send you my laughter. May Buddha bless thee and thine.
~ James Clavell
It's vast to be alive," he said happily. "I can almost hear the rain waiting to be born.
~ James Clavell
The sun dances in her and she has an immense joy of life
~ James Clavell
The overarching joy and lasting appeal of noir is that it makes doom fun.
~ James Ellroy
Judith:And where, then, is your sweetheart, Deerslayer? Deerslayer: She's in the forest, Judith - hanging from the boughs of the trees, in a soft rain - in the dew on the open grass - the clouds that float about in the blue heavens - the birds that sing in the woods - the sweet springs where I slake my thirst - and in all the other glorious gifts that come from God's Providence!
~ James Fenimore Cooper
Hardship! 'tis a pleasure, children, and the greatest that is left me on this side the grave.
~ James Fenimore Cooper