Quotes About Joy

Voglio danzare, disegnare, suonare il pianoforte, scrivere versi, io voglio amare tutti. Questo è lo scopo della mia vita.

God has never put any limit on you nor any one else. Concentrate on this one great fact until you feel yourself expanding and glowing with joy and love for everything and everybody.

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

Here's a funny question: What is your favorite word? Think about it—maybe it's a word that makes you absolutely happy, or a word that sounds gloriously beautiful, or a word that evokes awe and wonder. Maybe you are reminded of a great time when you hear it, or maybe it represents your life's dream. So, what is it? What is your favorite word of all words? Thought about it yet? Good. And now, think why .

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach. Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

Think of happiness as a state of inner liberty. That is exactly what it is. It is never anything else. It will help if you forget the word happiness altogether. Substitute the term inner liberty. It works favorably upon your thinking habits. It connects inner liberty with the genuine meaning of happiness. And that puts you on the right track.

In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for no reason, even while chewing food. It brightened the woods, and the never sky, and everything.

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

Allí surtiendo de lo oscuro, rompiendo de lo oscuro, serena, pero casi cruel, como una leve diosa recobrada, hete aquí que ella emerge, sagradamente su ademán extendiendo, para que la luz del día, la ya gozosa luz que la asalta, se vierta doradamente viva sobre su palma núbil.

The lovely thing about real happiness is that it is there all of a sudden, unexpected, weightless as a little summer cloud and just as radiant and intangible.

Die Götter haben Menschen nicht gemacht, damit sie arbeiten, bis sie vor Müdigkeit umfallen, sondern damit sie sich des Lebens freuen und dass sie Zeit haben, Feste auszurichten und genügend zu rasten.

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

One of the happiest days of my life was when I quit waiting for "happily-ever-after" to come find me and proclaimed joy in the just now season of life. And the next season. And the next.

When we attach our happiness to a list of if-then conditions, we miss the joy found in the 960 moments God has already given us today. Once gone, we can never get them back.

Sharing one umbrella, We have to hold each other, Round the waist to keep together, You ask me why I'm smiling- It's because I'm thinking, I want it to rain forever.

You will always be your child's favorite toy.

Why the hell was she smiling like that?...Her mouth was blown so wide that the soft insides showed at the corners, like another grin was building in there. As if her laughter tumbled. Like joy was a living thing.

No matter how much you have, that voice of "more would be better" drives you to make acquisition the name of your game. Greed is one of the many strings in the human heart, and it can be pro-survival, but unchecked by a sense of fairness, balance, and love, it can gut our capacity for joy.

To be frugal means to have a high joy-to-stuff ratio. If you get one unit of joy for each material possession, that's frugal. But if you need ten possessions to even begin registering on the joy meter, you're missing the point of being alive.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year