Quotes About Joy

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

Smiling, Jake stood up and pulled Liz closer. He kissed her deeply

Part of living in the present means not worrying about the future, which will kill your happiness every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Worrying may be second nature to many, but most of us are not aware of how much we dwell on fearful thoughts. Research shows that happy people worry far less often than unhappy people do.

Noticing what you like about others more than what you don't is a recipe for happy relationships and happiness overall.

every day, write out five things for which you are grateful.

This is what almost all parents want for their children: a lifetime of happiness and an easy passage.

A little kid's life bursts with autotelic experiences. Children careen from one flow moment to another, animated by a sense of joy, equipped with a mindset of possibility, and working with the dedication of a West Point cadet. They use their brains and their bodies to probe and draw feedback from the environment in an endless pursuit of mastery. Then—at some point in their lives—they don't. What happens?

Happiness is love. Full stop.

Not always, but a lot of the time, when you are doing a piece for someone else it becomes more "work" than joy. When I work for myself there is the pure joy of creating and I can work through the night and not even know it. On a commissioned piece you have to check yourself—be careful to do what the client wants.

When you are playful, you are activating the right side of your brain. The logical brain is a limited brain. The right side is unlimited. You can be anything you want.

solved the puzzles simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.

A little kid's life bursts with autotelic experiences.

Children careen from one flow moment to another, animated by a sense of joy, equipped with a mindset of possibility, and working with the dedication of a West Point cadet. They use their brains and their bodies to probe and draw feedback from the environment in an endless pursuit of mastery. Then—at some point in their lives—they don't. What happens? "You start to get ashamed that what you're doing is childish," Csikszentmihalyi explained.

I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.

The sinister is always the unintelligible, the impressive, the numinous. Wherever something divine appears, we begin to experience fear. . . . Everything that has to do with salvation possesses, among other things, a sinister, unfamiliar character; it always includes the superhuman. It is a specifically human trait to find joy in destruction. —ADOLF GUGGENBUHL-CRAIG

Spend time with people who encourage you to grow, to explore new things, and who take joy in your successes.

You don't have to try too hard to have fun with your preschooler. Just being with you is paradise for him.

You can be grateful for what you enjoy, not longing for what you are missing.

I decided to host my show 'Kiss and Cry' hoping that people actually want to participate and feel more familiar with figure skating. When I see these people enjoying themselves, it's a great joy to me. Although some of them get hurt once in a while, they enjoy it a lot, and I hope the show makes the viewers want to give it a try.

I just think it's so important to have fun because if you're having fun, then your viewers will have fun too.

I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.

I feel that it is a privilege to make viewers laugh.

Everybody loves good humour and in movies, we are in search of things that make viewers laugh.

I love 'Eurovision!' It's the best thing in the world, and it should be mandatory viewing.