Quotes About Joy

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Prayer ushers in order out of chaos, pulls peace out of confusion and destruction, and brings joy in the midst of sorrow. It takes what Satan meant for evil and brings us good. Prayer—

The novel is describing a time in which she felt hope, beauty, elation, joy ,wonder, anticipation-these are things these friends gave to her and this is why they mattered so much. Her rage corresponds to the immensity of what she has lost. It doesn't matter in a way whether all these emotions were the result of real interactions or of fantasy, she experienced them fully. And in losing them, has lost happiness.

was suddenly aware, almost in a panic—a joyful panic—of the wealth of possibility out in the world, and also within myself.

I was suddenly aware, almost in a panic – a joyful panic – of the wealth of possibility out in the world, and also within myself. My

And then, suddenly, there's something else. When you least expect it. Suddenly there's an opportunity, an opening, a person or people you couldn't have imagined, and - elation!-it feels as though you've found the pot of gold, when you'd thought all the gilt was gone from this world forever. It's enough, for a time - maybe even for a long time - to make you forget that you were ever angry, that you ever knew what anger was at all.

he was playing on the climbing structure by himself—or "by his own," as the children sometimes charmingly put it.

Girls are always at their best smiling.

There is something you can do. You can smile. Sakura-chan, your smile is like food to a starving man for Syaoran-kun.

My heart is only thinking of one person. Being able to make that person smile makes me very happy. Staying by that person's side makes me very happy. {...} If that person is happy, I will also be happy. He is different from others. He is special.

This city will have no unhappy people. It's the special city that has the someone just for me.

She is really pretty. And somehow, she makes me feel all floaty inside.

Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy. Often before falling asleep - in that small struggle not to lose consciousness and enter the greater world - often, before having the courage to go toward the greatness of sleep, I pretend that someone is holding my hand and I go, go toward the enormous absence of form that is sleep. And when even then I can't find the courage, then I dream.

She would move around the kitchen, humming the words and dancing with her hands. The music was moving through her, filling an emptiness she hadn't known was so deep.

Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!

Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night.

of toys—and St. Nicholas too.

Read with joy!

I dream a world . . . where every man is free . . . And joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind . . .

If all your dreams have broken and gone, if you feel isolated in your own private world, go out this minute and buy a sunflower. Place it on a sunny shelf, give it a little water every day – not too much – and as its big yellow face turns to the sun you will feel your lips lift in a smile knowing that you have learned the secret life of sunflowers.

there's nothing in the world more fun than doing something you're good at.

Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.

You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst.

True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.