Quotes About Joy

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

A joy it will be one day, perhaps, to remember even this.

I seek for myself no joy in life; that would be sin; but only to bring some joy to my son among the shades. (Evander)

numero deus impare gaudet.

It's the nice thing about children. Mothers tend to forget most of the bad things sooner or later. The good things are forever. Bitty joined me on the porch, and sat down in the wicker rocker next to me and handed me a Bloody Mary.

Yes. When I want to fill my heart with His love, I open my eyes to the creations of His hand, especially the ones that seem outrageously and uselessly beautiful--sunsets, sunrises, ice crystals, patterns in drying mud, golden cottonwood leaves against red rock cliffs, the melancholy sound of the first cricket in August, moss-covered rocks in a mountain stream, the way a baby laughs before she can do useful things such as talking or walking.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

what she loved: life, London, this moment of June.

Oh, I am in love with life!

The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

What a lark! What a plunge!

I want to dance, laugh, eat pink cakes, yellow cakes, drink thin, sharp wine. Or an indecent story, now - I could relish that. The older one grows the more one likes indecency.

The world is crammed with delightful things. I think young people make such a mistake about that — not letting themselves be happy. I sometimes think that happiness is the only thing that counts.

If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.

The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

kindling all over with pleasure at the thought of the past.

I am extremely happy walking on the downs...I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

I was thinking today of my greatest happiness, a walk along a cliff by the sea, and you at the end of it.

What a morning - fresh as if issued to children on a beach.

Hablo con ellas y descubro que para ser las personas más felices del mundo tan solo necesitan saber que lo son.

Though the wind is rough and blowing in their faces, those girls there, striding hand in hand, shouting out a song, seem to feel neither cold nor shame. They are hatless. They triumph.