Quotes About Joy

Everyone was pretending to be bored to tears, or maybe they actually were, but Quentin wasn't. He was unexpectedly happy, though he instinctively kept it a secret. In fact he was so fully of joy and relief he could barely breathe. Like a receding glacier the ordeal of the Beast had left behind a changed world, jumbled and scraped and raw, but the earth was finally putting up new green shoots again.

He was experimenting cautiously with the idea of being happy, dipping an uncertain toe into those intoxicatingly carbonated waters.

This is a feeling that you had, Quentin,' she said. 'Once, a very long time ago. A rare one. This is how you felt when you were eight years old, and you opened one of the Fillory books for the first time, and you felt awe and joy and hope and longing all at once. You felt them very strongly, Quentin. You dreamed of Fillory then, with a power and an innocence that not many ever experience. That's where all this began for you. You wanted the world to be better than it was.

He was unexpectedly happy, though he instinctively kept it a secret.

Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place. They

Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place.

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

Over the meeting of the lovers I draw a veil. The burst of rapture with which they clasped each other in a wild embrace -- the many inquiries -- the fond regrets and thrilling hopes -- it is out of my power to convey. Let me, therefore, leave them to their happiness.

Online, there's no time. It's always Christmas.

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life we were placed here to live. But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshipping oneself is the best.

Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

They gave it me—for an unbirthday present.

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this - when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters - when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new and glorious day - and when all the sadness, and the sin, that darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the dreams of a night that is past!

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

gift revives the soul.

Christians... get Christmas under control. Seriously. It won't stop! It doesn't stop does it? It's always Christmas now! Make it the whole year! It's the only time you pricks are happy!

There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.

It is possible to find enjoyment in the gift of each moment and each breath, even in the midst of difficulty.