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Quotes About Joy

I'd pay a million dollars to be Alice and Elisabeth's age again for just one day. I'd dance like Olivia's butterfly and bite into crisp green apples and run across hot sand into the surf, and I'd walk, as far as I wanted, wherever I wanted, in big loping, leaping strides, with my head held high and my lungs filling with air. And I'd probably have sex!
~ Liane Moriarty
As soon as he woke he'd be desperate to give Celeste his gift. He loved giving presents. The first time she knew she wanted to marry him was when she saw the anticipation on his face, watching his mother open a birthday present he'd bought for her. "Do you like it?" he'd burst out as soon she tore the paper, and his family had all laughed at him for sounding like a big kid.
~ Liane Moriarty
Well, if it was a diary, Joy certainly would not read it. Absolutely not. That sort of gross invasion of privacy was only appropriate for one's own children.
~ Liane Moriarty
Friendship and holidays. A swimming pool. Champagne and sunshine and laughter. It seemed like a dream life.
~ Liane Moriarty
A child laughed; a long, gurgling giggle, like a stream of soap bubbles.
~ Liane Moriarty
She felt as if she needed to run crazily across a huge expanse of grass, flinging her body about like a puppy let off its leash.
~ Liane Moriarty
She has become so irritatingly optimistic ever since she took up salsa dancing.
~ Liane Moriarty
Having a baby had been like starting a demanding new job and beginning a passionate love affair and moving to a new country with a different language and culture all at the same time. The baby filled her mind, her heart and her senses. She wanted to inhale her, to gobble her up.
~ Liane Moriarty
Her life has so much joy. That was an actual verifiable fact.
~ Liane Moriarty
She realized with a shock that some of the happiest moments of her life had taken place over the last few months.
~ Liane Moriarty
It was embarrassing just how much genuine happiness she was gaining from something so superficial.
~ Liane Moriarty
bored she and Stan had been until Savannah arrived on their doorstep. Savannah gave Joy and Stan something interesting and new to talk about, and she was so sweet and grateful and pretty.
~ Liane Moriarty
that television series together anymore. It was such a pity. 'Did something happen while I was in hospital?' Joy had asked
~ Liane Moriarty
practicing gratitude,
~ Liane Moriarty
Sophie has always thought that the first time you get the hysterical giggles with a new female friend is like the first time you sleep with a boyfriend; it takes your relationship to a new, more intimate level. The two kookaburras are certainly taking their relationship to a new, more intimate level.
~ Liane Moriarty
She'd never believed in God, except when she heard children singing.
~ Liane Moriarty
Oh, that did me good! Laughter is wonderful for the digestion.
~ Liane Moriarty
They didn't say anything for a few seconds, and then they both dissolved into the sort of helpless, wheezing laughter unique to women who had spent their school days together.
~ Liane Moriarty
Hijinxs and crazy shenanigans that'll leave you chuckling to the bewilderment of those around you - Love Romance Passion
~ Unknown
Worship is the common sense of faith in a life to come; and the hours we devote to it will assuredly be among those upon which we shall reflect with most thankful joy when all things here shall have fallen into a very distant background, and when through the Atoning Mercy our true home has been reached at last.
~ Unknown
We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.
~ Unknown
Make jokes. No stress. Love. Live. Life. Proceed. progress.
~ Lil Wayne
Life is beach, Im just playing in the sand.
~ Lil Wayne
I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same.
~ Lil Wayne