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Quotes About Joy

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is sort of a Divine accident.
~ Horace Walpole
Su dicha fué completa, pues la halló sola, en batón, y los rizos sobre las mejillas. Como Nébel la retuvo contra la pared, ella, riendo y cortada, se recostó en el muro. Y el muchacho, a su frente, tocándola casi, sintió en sus manos inertes la alta felicidad de un amor inmaculado, que tan fácil le habría sido manchar.
~ Horacio Quiroga
Nébel había sido visto ya por ella; pero no importaba. Lidia llegó cuando él estaba de pie. Avanzó a su encuentro, los ojos centelleantes de dicha, y le tendió un gran ramo de violetas, con adorable torpeza.
~ Horacio Quiroga
Fade, fade, each earthly joy; Jesus is mine! Break every earthly tie; Jesus is mine; Dark is the wilderness; Earth has no resting-place; Jesus alone can bless; Jesus is mine.
~ Horatius Bonar
A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.
~ Hosea Ballou
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
~ Hosea Ballou
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
~ Hosea Ballou
But, the young man said, this tape was being made for a celebration, for history. Was it possible, the technician asked Mr. Aaron, for him to show a little more joy? Perhaps a smile would be good. Henry looked at the man and delivered a line that, in the face of Bonds, would forever make him the people's champion.
~ Howard Bryant
Sports is the toy department of human life.
~ Howard Cosell
Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
~ Howard Cosell
A showThat is really a showSends you outWith a kind of a glowAnd you sayAs you go on your way"That's entertainment."
~ Howard Dietz
Money can't buy happiness.
~ Howard Hughes
At any age there is future one doesn't have. Never enough life when you are happy, that was the thing. Never so much bliss that you can't take a little more.
~ Howard Jacobson
Everything I loved most happened most every day.
~ Unknown
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received .
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
I let you find all those polytheistic truths yourself; life in them, find the joy in them, and even sorrow. But in these joys and sorrows rest content with the thought that they give meaning to our world.
~ Unknown
high spirits and overflowing joy making the absence of love known.
~ Unknown
They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world...Not only were all things possible, but all things were theirs.
~ Unknown
The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and joy and youth, but perhaps, of dreams. They listened to the music, each hearing it in his own way, feeling relaxed and a part of the music, a part of each other, and almost a part of the world.
~ Unknown
Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.
~ Unknown
They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world and them and that the world was not only their oyster it was also their linguine with clam sauce. Not only were all things possible, but all things were theirs.
~ Unknown
the water-ousels darted in and out under the ice, singing most sweetly; the willows, all in bud, perfumed the air; and Denali soared clear and brilliant, far above the range, right in front of us. Here
~ Hudson Stuck
This was how we grew up—in a close family with a proud, strong, protective father and a loving, joyful mother. No wonder we came to feel that all our needs—from religion to friendship to entertainment—were met within the family circle. There was no felt need for outside friends; we were such good friends with each other.
~ Huey P. Newton
Sorrows come and will come, but faith is not made perfect till they are driven out by the strong hand of joy.
~ Hugh Black