Quotes About Joy

You have wasted your life on hatred and revenge, Mr Crepsley said. What good is life if there is no joy or creative purpose?

Molly happy see Ammm," she said. The Porpoise language has 237 words that mean "happy," and Molly had actually chosen the one denoting the happiness derived from having one's belly tickled by seaweed.

Shall we go to Bethlehem, men? Or shall we DANCE

bimble beedle bom.

Are the kids at school? No, they're in the lake. My God.

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes.

the waterfall, and the tiki torches, all of these things the stuff of vacations and dreams and impossible to maintain, but then she knew—and this is what was keeping her up, her head careening with something like a toddler's joy—that she would be going back to that place, the place where all these things happened. She was welcome there, employed there.

There is travel and there are babies, he said, stepping out. Everything else is drudgery and death.

En de hele tijd streelde ik alle muren van mijn hoofd, met tranen in mijn ogen van vreugde, melancholie zelfs. Ik was verzot op de oppervlakten, de vele kamers - de oude en de lege kamers.

Happiness above can solve the sadness below.

is possible to be effectively doing while you are delightfully being, in your ordinary workaday world.

Everything in life worth achieving requires practice. In fact, life itself is nothing more than one long practice session, an endless effort of refining our motions. When the proper mechanics of practicing are understood, the task of learning something new becomes a stress-free experience of joy and calmness, a process which settles all areas in your life and promotes proper perspective on all of life's difficulties. —Thomas Sterner

We thought a little longer, and in the end we simply called her Joy.

Time's Flying," said Dad. He Smiled. He pointed to the air. "There it is, flying past! Catch it!" And he jumped, and caught Time in his hands, and showed it to Lizzie. She took it from him, and threw it up again. "There it goes," she called. "Bye-bye. Bye-bye, Time!

We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop our walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust.

Mes kaip maži paukš?iukai – pus? laiko b?name laimingi, o kit? pus? mirtinai išsigand?.

Me great achievement is that I have been happy, that I've never been nowt but happy

Amazingly, even in midst of trauma, people continue to smile, to love, to celebrate, to create, and to renew.

It had been so long since we were a family that I had almost forgotten the joy that came with having one. All the small and large moments, many that I had taken for granted while they were occuring, no doubt bolstered by the certainty that there would be many more. Yet such endearing and memorable engagements in life are promised to no one. They come and go and one has to be aware that there is no assurance they will ever come again. It made me tremble to think what I had lost.

for once in a long time, he felt good. No worries, just possibilities. Endless possibilities.

Kids make everything better. And harder.

Thank God for dog lovers.

I asked her to imagine that we had a magic button and that if she pushed it, all of her negative thoughts and feelings would instantly disappear, with no effort at all, and she'd immediately feel joyous, even euphoric. Would she push the button?