Quotes About Joy

Learn to radiate joy, not stingily, not meanly, but generously. Fling out your gladness without reserve. Shed it in the home, on the street, on the car, in the store, everywhere, as the rose sheds its beauty and gives out its fragrance.

Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.

books. They are friends to the lonely, companions to the deserted, joy to the joyless, hope to the hopeless, good cheer to the disheartened, a helper to the helpless. They bring light into darkness, and sunshine into shadow.

If we were all in our right places, doing the thing nature planned us to do, our work would be almost like play. Where the heart is there is no friction or discord, and friction and discord are what wear life out. These are what exhaust the vitality and waste the brain power. If you love your work, it will not be a grind. On the contrary, it will be a pleasure, a perpetual stimulus.

The first duty we owe a child is to teach him to fling out his inborn gladness and joy with the same freedom and abandon as the bobolink does when it makes the meadow joyous with its song. Suppression of the fun-loving nature of a child means the suppression of its mental and moral faculties. Joy will go out of the heart of a child after a while if he is continually suppressed.

It is the juices of youth, the joy and gladness carried along through the busy years that make old age tolerable.

and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

In the end, you and I are happier than many – happier than those who do not know love at all and than those who do not know how to find it.

Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them? Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.

Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.

Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.

But what kind of race is it, when the racers never let go of each other's hands, and the winner pulls the loser laughing over the finish line?

there's no fear of future in the song of life, just the ever-joyful present moment.

How I wish you could have kept on living such a life of joy. But no one can. Language comes to us, and with it lies and threats, cruelty and disappointment. You walk, and those steps lead you outside the shelter of your home. To keep the joy of childhood you would have to die as a child, or live as one, never becoming a man, never growing.

Una esclava que se alegra es una esclava de todas formas.

The reason for a woman's life," said Sarai, "is the same as the reason for a man's—so that she might have joy.

Elemak pulled the shower cord before he soaped. The moment the water hit him he yowled, and then did his own little splash dance, shaking his head and flipping water all over the courtyard while jabbering "ooga-booga looga-booga" just like a little kid.

H]e had come to work for what the fee could buy, and not for joy of the work itself.

Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as in useful ones.

It was a strange, exhilarating feeling to be with people who didn't want anything from you except your happiness, who were glad just to have you around.

Para conservar la alegría de la infancia tendrías que morir siendo niño, o vivir como tal, sin convertirte nunca en hombre, sin crecde jamás.