Quotes About Joy

And Strell laughed.

I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.

Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.

We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.

Life is a gift that must be given back and joy should arise from its possession. It's too damn short and that's a fact. Hard to accept this earthly procession to final darkness is a journey done, circle completed, work of art sublime, a sweet melodic rhyme. A battle won.

Be happy. Persevere.

The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer.

Like me, you are human, after all, and we know what a joy and terror that is.

we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy

Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose-if we dare.

we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

To one degree or another, I have been happy most of my life, in part because the world has infinite charms if you wish to see them. - Addison Goodheart pg. 119

Dogs' lives are short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you're going to lose a dog, and there's going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her, never fail to share her joy or delight in her innocence, because you can't support the illusion that a dog can be your lifelong companion.

The man told Henry that the only native talent needed to play music well was joy.

I am happy to see him on the couch, his huge feet on the arm, dirtying the cloth. I am happy to hear him stomping upstairs across the floorboards and whipping towels at his sisters after he has showered. I am happy to hear him screaming for no reason, bounding down the stairs, reaching the bottom and wildly petting Nelly, shaking her head back and forth, and calling her a good girl. I think how it doesn't matter who shot my son. My son is back.

Solitude is long. The joys that connect us leave almost no trace.

That's life. The celebration of the superfluous.

She's one of those people who think happiness is legitimate.

per noi adulti l'arcobaleno è un auspicio di felicità.»

Happy people have no reason to think. They live rather than question living.