Quotes About Joy

Something I didn't know any more: a sort of joy. The

This joy was used up a long time ago. Will it be reborn today?

Don't die to see me, live to love me.

The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.

It made me feel almost giddy, like a high-school girl watching the captain of the football team worked up his nerve to ask for a date. You mean me? Little old me? Oh my stars, really? Pardon me while I flutter my eyelashes.

Yes, I know, the blessed event," he said. "Into each life some domesticity must fall.

We rolled across town through light traffic, mostly keeping our thoughts to ourselves. Several times I caught Jackie looking at me with what could only be called a secret smirk, and while it's nice to be the target of other people's happiness, I didn't get any joy from her barely suppressed amusement—especially since I had no idea what was causing it.

Rita sighed and smiled happily. "Anyway," she said again, and I had to agree.

Fathers don't ask their children's permission to marry. In any case, I'm sure they'll be delighted.

They [the dogs] danced in excited harmany... From The Cutting Edge.

I am living through days as happy as those God keeps for his chosen people; and whatever becomes of me, I can never say that I have not tasted the purest joys of life.

Per essere felici bisogna trovare varietà nella ripetizione.

Emotion, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in sadness, joy, or regret. Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, the happiness that attends disaster. ...most of my emotions are hybrids. But not all. Some are pure and unadulterated. Jealousy, for instance.

and the wind-chime laugh that

Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting.

the more one Bes, Gives, and Gets, the more it perpetuates itself into happiness.

Accomplishments, both professional and creative, feed into this level, as do yearnings for joy, happiness, and glory, which are manifested through team activities, hobbies, and other forms of shared participation. In other words, that which brings us together—and tears us apart—in the name of esteem.

Cake loves you unconditionally.

I love zucchini. I love everything about zucchini. I love saying the word "zucchini." Zucchini, zucchini, zucchini! Even the individual syllables are charming! You can't not be happy around such a big, green, comical-sounding foodstuff. Zucchini's hilarious and delicious!

We are all perfect in our own, magnificent, fucked-up ways. Laugh at yourself. Love yourself and others. Rejoice in the cosmic ridiculousness.

Your life is your party. You get to choose how you invite people and experiences and things into it.

Follow what feels good in the moment, every moment, and it will lead you through a most excellent life.

Christmas Sonatina by Carl Reinecke

I love to sing. It is my one true way of forgetting about the outside world and connecting with my core.