Quotes About Joy

Jassie, guess what I'm dancing in!' 'I don't know, a bowl?' 'Non... I am dancing in my Nuddy-pants!

Dance of the Sugar Plum Bikey. Yes, that's got a nice ring to it.

She who laughs last laughs the laughingest.

I think, probably, whether your're better off in the country or in the city depends, in the final analysis, on where you'd rather be. You're best off where you're the happiest.

Living life to the fullest involves living it with your family.

Love is all around you and all you have to do is claim it.

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.

Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.

Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run.

Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.

All recurring joy is pain refined.

Then I see you, Standing under a spire of pale blue larkspur, With a basket of roses on your arm. You are cool, like silver, And you smile. I think the Canterbury bells are playing little tunes.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how; Everything is happy now.

Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.

Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.

The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

Sierra laughed and looked so happy that it touched his heart. It didn't dawn on him until now that she always looked a little sad. And perhaps lost. Well, if she were lost, he had just found her, and he wasn't about to let her go.

Beach girls now, beach girls tomorrow, beach girls till the end of time.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.