Quotes About Joy

You can't grow as a person," she said sadly, ignoring my joke, "when you close yourself off emotionally. It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?

Marriage should be about fun. It's about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun.

The place she felt happiest, the place she found her solace and joy, was in the pages of books. She

A battle like this would be intolerable if we didn't have a good time, if we didn't have the joy of battle, if we didn't have a high old time in this fight. Never, never underestimate the power of high hearts when they're combined with principled, unyielding wills.

With wisdom, patience, and love, you can create a home where your child feels safe, secure, and free to grow and learn, and where she can become a responsible, respectful, and resourceful person—and where you will find joy in your parenting role.

Few studies have been done to discover why the happy man is happy, yet his answers would be highly pertinent.

Exuberance and joy, however, basically have nothing to do with time or age.

Without a sense of joy and inner accomplishment and development of potential, the personality will not only fail to flourish, but the inner self will refuse to maintain the physical structure adequately. This is extremely important. Superficial measures will not fool the inner self.

You loved the world for its own sake or not at all.

Because I can't help loving you, your wild, inaccurate emotions, your bizarre innocence, your angry sense of responsibility, your wrong-headed wit, your cockeyed joy, your cowboy boots, your absolutely magnificent body, your incredible eyes. I can't help it. I don't know how anyone could.

Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water.

Joy had never before been to a university party where there were no drinks, and her immediate reaction was that she just couldn't find it, that there was a bar somewhere in the house where a nice young man in a white jacket was pouring out Bloody Marys, but that no one would tell her where it was.

What do you think makes you start laughing and unable to stop?

Holiday Association.

Leaping and looping with his little striped friends, verdi laughed and said I may be big and very green, but I'm still me!

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love. (Sophocles) by Adam Harford, Duke of Harford, from the last page of Sophie's Salvation

Its always nice to have a stud muffin at the table.

Everyone wants a Christmas tree. If you had a Christmas tree Santa would bring you stuff! Like hair curlers and slut shoes.

Calories don't count if they're connected to a celbration. Everyone knows this.

Thank God for small favors.

Ranger slung an arm around me and hugged me into him, and I could feel him laughing.

Finally, a sport I could enjoy.

He rushed to the dish, crammed everything into his cheeks, and rushed back to his soup can, where he hunkered in butt side out, vibrating with happiness and good fortune. That's the neat part about a hamster. It doesn't take much to make a hamster happy.

Lula and Grandma did a complicated high five.