Quotes About Joy

The things that make us happy make us wise.

Their laughter rose to the ceiling and shook hands there.

Today, my friends, we each have one day less, every one of us. And joy is the only thing that slows the clock.

A gaggle of giggles?" Meyer said, trying that one on me. My turn. "How about a prance of pussycats?" "Not bad at all. Hmmm. A scramble of scrumptious?

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.

On the most beautiful day any April could be asked to come up with

The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.

The moment of perceiving something beautiful confers on the perceiver the gift of life.

The glory of God is man fully alive. (Saint Irenaeus)

I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world." (L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

All of the happiness we have ever known and all of the happiness we hope to find is unreachable without a heart.

We know if we could truly love, and be loved, and never lose love, we would finally be happy.

Something has gone wrong in us, very wrong indeed. So wrong that we have to be told that joy is found not in having another man's wife, but in having our own. But the point is not the law; the point is the joy.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."2

Imagine—after your enemies are judged and banished, many great treasure chests are set before you. Jesus tells you to open them, saying, These are the gifts I meant for you in your former life but were stolen. I return them now, with interest. Imagine what fills those chests. Laughter comes from one, for so much of what has been lost are memories and joy.

positive barometers, too, wonderful things;

His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot possess this forever, therefore I am sad.

Each pleasure we feel is a pleasure less; each day a stroke on a calendar. What we will not accept is that the joy in the day and the passing of the day are inseparable. What makes our existence worthwhile is precisely that its worth and its while - its quality and duration - are as impossible to unravel as time and space in mathematics of relativity.

But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met.

Humour is a manifestation of freedom. It is because there is freedom that there is smile.

Sex is just an activity, like anything else. It's not dirty, it's just two people playing with each other's bodies. Like dancing. Like a game.

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Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.

tower. I heard the laughter