Quotes About Joy

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

God bless us, every one!

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!

REMEMBER HOW STRONG WE ARE IN OUR HAPPINESS, AND HOW WEAK HE IS IN IS MISERY!

Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!

His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.

I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!

And O there are days i this life, worth life and worth death

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.

And so, as Tiny Tim said, 'A Merry Christmas to us all; God bless us, everyone!

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves and a skeleton of truth that we never did.

The happiness he gives is quite as great, as if it cost a fortune.

Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

El recuerdo de lo que ha pasado me hace casi esperar que te duela. Pero al cabo de muy poco tiempo te olvidarás con alegría, como de un sueño improductivo del cual por fortuna despertaste. ¡Que seas feliz en la vida que has elegido!

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world. Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!

She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capital face; a ripe little mouth, that seemed made to be kissed — as no doubt it was; all kinds of good little dots about her chin, that melted into one another when she laughed; and the sunniest pair of eyes you ever saw in any little creature's head. Altogether she was what you would have called provoking, you know; but satisfactory, too. Oh, perfectly satisfactory.