Quotes About Joy

Try to be happy, if only for the purpose of setting an example

I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.

Nothing last forever, only the joy and happiness that turns into memories, turns eternal.(c)

Her heart lurched and tears burned her eyes. "Surely you can escape." "Not this time." He captured a tear that rolled down her cheek. "Don't cry. You've given me more joy than I've ever known." "It's not enough." He gave her a sad grin. "That's how pirates are made. The plunder we take is never enough. We're never content with what we have. We always want more.

True human capabilities will not find expression in competition. True human capabilities will find expression only in absolute relaxation. Your mind, your body will work best, will find fullest expression, only when you are joyful and peaceful, and quiet within yourself.

The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

It reminds me of those carefree days in elementary school," Adam said, taking a sop of milk. "Where the only thing you worried about was being first on the swings, or being picked last for kickball.

La vida es muy corta como para ser aburrido. Lo principal es quedar bien contigo mismo.

Supe, hace rato, que estaba alegre porque me puse a cantar y a decirle al locutor que era un tonto y a la vida que era estupenda.

Ojalá te encuentre por aquí, en alguna calle del sueño. Es una gran alegría ésta de aprisionarte con mis párpados al dormir.

How soft is the blackness as it falls. It falls in silence and yet it is deafening, for no other sound except the blackness falling can be heard. The blackness falls like soot from a lamp with an untrimmed wick. The blackness is visible and yet it is invisble, for I see that I cannot see it. The blackness fills up a small room, a large field, an island, my own being. The blackness cannot bring me joy but often I am made glad in it.

God came down in Jesus not to prepare us for the next world but to set us free to live in this world the way Jesus lived, which was the costly way of reconciling love, relentless hope, reverberating joy.

If you know something bad is coming, can't you plan to avoid it or try to do something differently?" said Charles. Probably", said the Cartographer, "but then the good events would have no flavor. The joy you find in life is paid for by suffering that comes later, just as sometimes, the suffering is redeemed by a joy unexpected. That's the trade that makes a life worth living.

She drops the Happy Grenades when she dies. Tip

and gentle happy and peaceful, tasting the mean goodness of their living like the last of their suppers in their mouths.

understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is the one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped or shaped towards, in the individual, and in the race.

If you would have your home and your surroundings happy, be happy. You can transform everything around you if you will transform yourself.

Joy comes and fills the self-emptied heart; it abides with the peaceful; its reign is with the pure.

Joy cannot remain with the selfish; it is wedded to Love.

Joy flees from the selfish, it deserts the quarrelsome; it is hidden from the impure.

Only think about the people you enjoy. Only read the books you enjoy, that make you happy to be human. Only go to the events that actually make you laugh or fall in love. Only deal with the people who love you back, who are winners and want you to win too.

Forget purpose. It's okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

Ina the Viking was out in her potato patch waving at him like some idiot. Some people thought life was just the spiffiest thing that ever happened.

Forty-five minutes of embraces and ostentatious arrivals and all the siblings arranging themselves in the front row and the rings of descendants, like shock waves of a meteor strike, radiating back through the room. Paz