Quotes About Joy

It may be difficult to believe, but, at any given moment, someone somewhere is in a dangerous situation and other people in some other place are dancing and having a good time. The world is often like this. A celebration here; terrible trouble just outside the door.

But finally, into the world came a baby girl, just as, I'm very, very sorry to say, her mother, and my sister, slipped away from the world after a long night of suffering—but also a night of joy, as the birth of a baby is always good news, no matter how much bad news the baby will hear later.

Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

I believe this intense adaptability gave me the freedom to be happy anywhere.

You know what I'm doing for Easter? I'm gonna be hanging with my Peeps.

All's fair in love and family Christmases.

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

home from school!

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

A life lived in love will never be dull.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Love, it seems, fits perfectly into no one of these molds for it may be all at once; a state of ecstasy, a state of joy, a state of disillusionment, a rational state or an irrational state

When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our egos, become vulnerable and know levels of joy and well-being unique among life experiences. We attain a glimpse of the rapture that can be ours. Boundaries are blurred, there are no limitations and we rejoice in union. We become one and, at the same time, both.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things...I play with leaves, I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. :)

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.