Quotes About Joy

Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that's messy but not hurting anybody.

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

How happy those whose walls already rise!

O thrice and four times blessed!

That happy place, the green groves of the dwelling of the blest.

Thus, thus, it is joy to pass to the world below.

Give me handfuls of lilies to scatter.

Happy old man!

Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

O ye Sun and Moon, oh ye beans and roses, oh ye jigs and juleps, Bless ye the Lord, Praise Him and Magnify Him Forever. Amen.

Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners.

And if Mrs. Harris and myself are lucky enough to be in Heaven at the same time, I know what we can do when things get dull. We can give a garden party. I sure hope God didn't forget to plant a garden in Heaven.

You ever laughed so hard nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute, no matter what they tried to do to you?

When you can find no reason to celebrate, you find one anyway. Every soul needs laughter and fun, no matter how awful the reality of the present.

Can't run from hurt, Rose. You might miss some hurt, but you'll also miss all the joys of livin'.

strengthen her frail body. "All right, Mama," she assented joyfully.

There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.

had grown tonight, since Gordy and Crystal both brought friends. Joan was ecstatic at the popularity their little

Would you look at you two? What's the special occa-ouch!

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Du kleines Arschloch, sagt eine Stimme, wie kannst du es wagen?, und ich erhalte die Strafe, die ich verdiene. Für die Freude, die ich empfinden würde.

Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.

our tears and our smiles, our joys and our griefs, our weeping and our laughter, our curses and our blessings, our praises and our blames--every one of these we may find, if we calmly study our own selves, to have been brought out from within ourselves by so many blows. The result is what we are. All these blows taken together are called Karma--work, action.