Quotes About Joy

Nothing left to do but smile.

I believe that when we give the game back to our children we demonstrate the highest level of love for these great young spirits. When I ask kids why they play sports, they almost never mention scholarships, going pro, or winning a championship. They usually couldn't care less about such lofty goals. They want to have fun, feel challenged, and make friends.

If you're a surfer, you just want to surf. You don't know if anyone's going to see you, and you don't really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

I think that comedy makes everyone feel weightless. The weight of whatever their troubles, or the weight of life, and in that moment, when you're laughing, it's like you're free of earth's gravity.

The real motivation of being a comedian is if you really love the sound of a laugh.

I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn't care if others were watching. In fact, i hoped they were. I grabbed her and squeezed her. I had never been so happy and so proud in my life.

She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone else's; but timid introverted me, I showed it sparingly: I was a smiler. In her presence I threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life

He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.' I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?' 'Inside.' It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips.

And smiles to go before I weep, And Smiles to go before I weep.

The echo of her laughter is the second sunrise I awaken to each day, and at night I feel it is more than the stars looking down on me.

His smile was so wide he'd have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway

He's a sunshine bottle.

When I walk in your door I want to be thrilled

She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music.

It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.

She had been utterly pleased with herself. "I runned away!" she chirped, and the sun was no match for her smile. And Zinkoff saw in that moment something that he had no words for. He saw that a kid runs to be found and jumps to be caught. That's what being a kid is: found, caught." (p. 185).

You're amazing,' he would say, and I would feel like a buttercream with a hazelnut heart

She taught me to revel She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh

I saw a little girl in a wooden wagon, her dress spilling colors over its sides, staring at the rising sun as if it were the very dawn of creation.

I was a smiler. In her presence I threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life.

Did you ever see a little kid's face when he spots a penny on a sidewalk?

She taught me to revel.

im a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time

Little kids on pastel bikes pedaled furiously, churning the heat to butter...