Quotes About Joy

Parecíamos dioses en el alba del mundo y nuestro gozo era tan deslumbrante que no éramos capaces de ver otra cosa que el uno al otro.

Eravamo come dei all'alba del mondo e la nostra felicità era così abbagliante che non potevamo vedere altro che noi.

Byli?my jak bogowie u zarania ?wiata, a nasza rado?? by?a tak promienna, ?e nie widzieli?my niczego poza sob? nawzajem.

Yo me había escapado y ahora estaba eufórico, disfrutando de la vertiginosa luz de la soledad. Era la primera vez que estaba solo desde hacía muchas semanas.

Name one hero that was happy.

As if he heard me, he smiled, and his face was like the sun. - The Song of Achilles

Name one hero who was happy...

Any Challenge was a game, and any game a pleasure.

The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand. We speak to our parents with a sorrow unfamiliar until the day they are dying.

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free.

The funny thing is, the more you know, the more passionate you feel about life, and the more joy you feel, and the more inspired you feel, but then also the more disgusted you are with humanity [...] [this is] the paradox of life.

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Sólo vives una vez, pero si vives bien una vez es suficiente.

You can't marry an ungenerous man; there's no joy in his soul.

During our first forays out as a couple, I blushed a lot, felt dizzy with my luck, unable to contain the nearly exploding fact that I've so obviously gotten everything I'd ever wanted, everything there was to get. Handsome, brilliant, quick-witted, articulate, forceful, you. We spent hours and hours on the red couch, giggling, The happiness police are going to come and arrest us if we go on this way. Arrest us for our luck.

For it isn't just moments of happiness, which is all I thought we got. It's happiness that spreads.

The happiness police are going to come and arrest us if we go on this way. Arrest us for our luck.

What if where I am is what I need?' Before you, I had always thought of this mantra as a means of making peace with a bummer or even a catastrophic situation. I never imagined it might apply to joy, too

What if where I am is what I need? Before you, I had always thought of this mantra as a means of making peace with a bummer or even catastrophic situation. I never imagined it might apply to joy, too.

Its happiness has been of a more palpable and undeniable and unmitigated quality than any I've ever known. For it isn't just moments of happiness, which is all I thought we got. It's a happiness that spreads.

Why would she ever want to behold anything else, when she could be taking in the sight of Susanna's ears, like the pale folds of roses, the winglike sweep of her tiny eyebrows, the dark hair, which clings to her crown as if painted there with a brush? There is nothing more exquisite to her than her child: the world could not possibly contain a more perfect being, anywhere, ever.

What do you think, Father said, and I said, she is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen, and she was, she was—