Quotes About Joy

So often, vast circumstances confine us, like a life sentence in prison or tending to people who are dying, or racist immigration law, or combat, circumstances that seem to "always win." But in recognizing the vastness of such fates, that we are "a tiny speck" in a "huge place," we can find a "freeing feeling" and even an urge to build "real joy for all people." We so often experience transformative awe in the hardest of circumstances.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy" (WND

Life is as beautiful as a daisy :)

We must go for a day in the country and when surrounded by the gay twittering of the birds and the smell of the cows I will lay my suit at her feet and he waved his arm wildly at the gay thought.

Happiness is a talent.

When she was chair of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010, Daisy Goodwin wrote a controversial essay lamenting the 'unrelenting grimness' of so many novels and pointing out that 'generally great fiction contains light and shade'---not only misery but joy and humor. 'It is time for publishers to stop treating literary fiction as the novelistic equivalent of cod-liver oil: if it's nasty it must be good for you.

I can't wait to see the ballet later,' Rachel giggled. Kirsty put her arm around her best friend and grinned at her. 'Me neither,' she said. 'It's going to be magical!

Jae perched on Rachel's shoulder, and she glanced at him as she danced. His face was bright with happiness. He smiled as the last words of "Wild 4 U" shivered in the air. "I'm so lucky to do a job I love," he said.

As Father Christmas made his way around the hall, handing out presents and shaking hands, Rachel turned to Kirsty and gave her a hug. "Thank you for inviting me to spend Christmas with you," she said. "I love the adventures we have together!" "Me too," said Kirsty, hugging her in return. "And I'm so lucky to have such an amazing best friend. Today has been the best Christmas Eve ever!

Daisy Meadows

And made Nina see rainbows and stars and stupid-assed unicorns.

What's your doggie name, honey?" "Mom…" "Oh, c'mon, kiddo—we'll look back on this someday and laugh together. Promise. Now cough it up. We'll laugh for you until you're ready to see the funny." He couldn't help but smile. It was pretty funny if you looked at it from the other side. "Fluffy.

Who says fun is the ultimate experience?

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happinessÖ

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall enjoy everything." It

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.