Quotes About Joy

Joy to the world! the Lord is come;Let earth receive her King.Let ev'ry heart prepare Him room,And heav'n and nature sing.

When I can read my title clearTo mansions in the skies,I'll bid farewell to every fear,And wipe my weeping eyes.

So when I let my head fall back under Sarah's kiss, the frenzy I trembled at just wasn't there. Instead, comfort and joy and simplicity and order and answers to questions I'd always supposed unanswerable, such as, why was I born? why a woman? why here? why now? A wonderful glowing spacious peacefulness came to us. There was so much time.

I hope you're happy, darling.

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance, give us again the joy of seeing the simple unconscious pure body of a woman. Like a great call it has come, and women must hear it and answer it.

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

La danza è l'eterno risorgere del Sole.

the springs of human joy are almost always poisoned by possessiveness; and the joy of possession is restricted by the object possessed and by the fear of losing it.

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

Dance is the universal art, the common joy of expression. Those who cannot dance are imprisoned in their own ego and cannot live well with other people and the world. They have lost the tune of life. They only live in cold thinking. Their feelings are deeply repressed while they attach themselves forlornly to the earth.

May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.

I have learned that happiness is like the sun. It must be enjoyed when it comes and while it shines.

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

Count your nights by stars, not shadows; count your life with smiles, not tears.

The dream of being invisible . . . When I find myself in an environment where I can enjoy the illusion of being invisible, I am really happy.

This he understood: that association makes people stronger and brings out each person's best gifts, and gives a joy which is rarely to be had by keeping to oneself, the joy of realizing how many honest decent capable people there are for whom it is worth giving one's best (while living just for oneself very often the opposite happens, of seeing people's other side, the side which makes one keep one's hand always on the hilt of one's sword).

The taste for the spontaneous, natural, lifelike snapshot kills spontaneity, drives away the present. Photographed reality immediately takes on a nostalgic character, of joy fled on the wings of time, a commemorative quality, even if the picture was taken the day before yesterday. And the life that you live in order to photograph it is already, at the outset, a commemoration of itself." - from "The Adventure of a Photographer

Um sentimento dominante não tarda a apresentar-se em seguida, impondo-se sobre todo e qualquer outro pensamento: e é o alívio por se saber que todos os problemas são problemas dos outros, que é tudo lá com eles. Aos mortos já não deveria interessar mais nada de nada, porque já não lhes diz respeito pensar em nada disso; e mesmo que isso possa parecer imoral, é nesta irresponsabilidade que os mortos encontram a sua alegria.

prendete la vita con leggerezza, che leggerezza non è superficialità, ma planare sulle cose dall'alto, non avere macigni sul cuore

Capì questo: che le associazioni rendono l'uomo più forte e mettono in risalto le doti migliori delle singole persone, e danno la gioia che raramente s'ha restando per proprio conto, di vedere quanta gente c'è onesta e brava e capace e per cui vale la pena di vedere cose buone (mentre vivendo per proprio conto capita più spesso il contrario, di vedere l'altra faccia della gente, quella per cui bisogna tener sempre la mano alla guardia della spada)

La realidad fotografiada asume en seguida un carácter nostálgico, de alegría desaparecida en alas del tiempo, un caracter conmemorativo, aunque sea una foto de anteayer.

A los duelos suceden tarde o temprano acontecimientos alegres, es ley de vida.

Certi accenti di quel colloquio echeggiarono nell'anima sua come il suono delle campane nel deserto; lungi, lungi, percorsero spazi vuoti enormi, li misurarono, riempiendoli improvvisamente tutti, rendendoli sensibili, distribuendovi abbondantemente gioia e dolore.