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Quotes About Joy

Happiness is — winking at someone.
~ Author Unknown
Winter stars blaze in silent joy.
~ Terri Guillemets
Oh Woman! lovely Woman! Nature made thee To temper Man: We had been Brutes without you, Angels are Painted fair, to look like you; There's in you all that we believe of Heav'n, Amazing Brightness, Purity and Truth, Eternal Joy, and everlasting Love.
~ Thomas Otway
Breasts and bosoms have I known Of varied shapes and sizes, From poignant disappointments To jubilant surprizes.
~ Waldo Pierce
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now I was free — there was such a glory over everything, the sun came like gold through the trees and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven!
~ Harriet Tubman
Gratitude is the best attitude.
~ Jack D. Osman
May all the blessings of heaven rain down upon you and yours.
~ Irish blessing
No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet.
~ Author Unknown
Grandparents are a delightful blend of laughter, caring deeds, wonderful stories, and love.
~ Author Unknown
Hope, not fear, is the creative principle in human affairs... Those who are taught in this spirit will be filled with life and hope and joy, able to bear their part in bringing to mankind a future less somber than the past, with faith in the glory that human effort can create.
~ Bertrand Russell, 1917
...a universe as this, full of all the essential means of happiness... the sun shining, the flowers blooming, the crops growing, the waters running...
~ Walt Whitman
Tick tock— It's cake o'clock!
~ Internet meme
Life is short — party hard!
~ American Saying
One cannot have too large a party.
~ Jane Austen, Emma, 1815
Life is tough. If you don't have fun and smile and goof around, life will bog you down real fast...
~ Bubba Watson, 2019
We're fools whether or not we dance, so we may as well dance.
~ Author Unknown
Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.
~ Author Unknown
Screen-Free Week is an annual invitation to play, explore, and rediscover the joys of life beyond ad-supported screens. During the first week of May, thousands of families, schools, and communities around the world will put down their entertainment screens for seven days of fun, connection, and discovery.
~ Fairplay, screenfree.org
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1835
What we all need is enough vacation every day so that we can face each morning with health sufficient to do our work in gladness. That is to say, we need enough of a play-spell every day to keep us in good physical condition.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.
~ James E. Starrs, unverified
Always jump in the puddles! Always skip alongside the flowers. Never turn down a good pillow fight.
~ Terri Guillemets
Chocolate is the answer. Who cares what the question is.
~ Author Unknown
In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
~ Author Unknown