Quotes About Joy

Aprovechemos el contento de espíritu cuando acude. Guardémonos de alejarlo por nuestra culpa, pero no hagamos proyectos para encadenarlo, pues que tales proyectos son puras locuras.

y del placer de los bellos conocimientos que me proponía adquirir; pues para mi era como si ya los poseyese, o mejor dicho, era más todavía, porque el gusto de aprender entraba por mucho en mi felicidad. Es

No hay día que no recuerde con gozo y ternura aquel único y breve tiempo de mi vida en que fui plenamente yo, sin mezcla y sin traba, y en que puedo realmente decir que he vivido.

Je sais et je sens que faire du bien est le plus vrai bonheur que le cÅ"ur humain puisse goûter.

Dans cet âge heureux où rien ne marquait les heures, rien n'obligeait à les compter, le temps n'avait d'autre mesure que l'amusement et l'ennui.

Full to the brim with hope and love and joy, she watched the little light bulb shining like a promise in the night.

The rhythm of his steps said, Happy to be here, happy to be here. Rays of sunlight shot between the clouds, making spots of light like polka dots on the ground.

Her face, which had never seemed especially remarkable, looked almost beautiful, because she looked so happy.

A slice of cake never made anyone fat. You don't eat the whole cake. You don't eat a cake every day of your life. You take the cake when it is offered because the cake is delicious. You have a slice of cake and what it reminds you of is someplace that's safe, uncomplicated, without stress. A cake is a party, a birthday, a wedding. A cake is what is served on the happiest days of your life.

Cakes have gotten a bad rap. People equate virtue with turning down dessert. There is always a person at the table...No, really, I couldn't...Everyone who is pressing a fork into that first tender layer looks at the person who declined the plate, and they all think, That person is better than I am. That person has discipline. But that isn't a person with discipline, that is a person who has completely lost touch with joy.

I think if you have something that you really love to do, you're already ahead of ninety-nine percent of the people out there in the world.

What struck me most was his crooked grin, like he saw the world in his own special way and got a kick out of it.

Happiness is not doing what you want but wanting what you do.

I am free,' he said suddenly. And his joy changed, on the spot, to a crushing sense of anguish.

how nice it is to know you are so profoundly happy, it's had me beaming all day.

Your life's work is something you love to do, something your talents can find full expression through. If we enjoy our work, we are sure to bring our creativity and enthusiasm to it.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.

Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.

As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.

Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.

The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.

Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it.