Quotes About Joy

Then, in the excess of my delirious joy, I cried out: O Jesus, my Love . . . my vocation, at last I have found it . . . MY VOCATION IS LOVE! Yes, I have found my place in the Church, and it is You. O my God, who have given me this place; in the heart of the Church, my Mother, I shall be Love. Thus I shall be everything, and thus my dream will be realized.

For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trial as well as joy; finally, it is something [25v°] great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.

when one expects pure and unmixed suffering, the smallest [10] joy becomes an unhoped-for surprise.

Perhaps one of the truths that Dante is trying to convey to us in this passage is that we can only ascend into the joy of God when we lighten up; when we can look down and smile upon our foolishness. Chesterton once said that the devil cannot laugh at himself and that he fell from heaven because of his gravity and that angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

I had no need to raise my head to see and, in fact, no longer raised it but to contemplate heaven which to me was filled with joy. All my trials had come to an end and the winter of my soul had passed on [20]forever.

Earth again seemed a sad place and I understood that in heaven alone joy will be without any clouds.

joy isn't found in the material objects surrounding us but in the inner recesses of the soul.

Further, deeper still, those whose true names are for ever hidden from the world picked up the pattern of vibrations in the ether, and something akin to joy stirred in their fathomless minds. Perhaps soon they would be called upon to feed.

Si la felicidad llama a tu puerta, no la dejes escapar.

Le bonheur se trouve souvent plus près de nous qu'on ne l'imagine.

Il y a tellement de gens qui se ratent pour de mauvaises raisons. Quel risque y a-t-il à voler un peu de bonheur ?

Demain est un mystère, pour tout le monde, et ce mystère doit provoquer le rire et l'envie, pas la peur ou le refus.

C'est moche d'avoir à guetter un signe de quelqu'un pour se sentir heureux.

People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love and joy? That sounds horrifying. I have no way of knowing whether I can handle either of those. I'm much better with need and fear. They are what ground me.

Falling as deeply in love with as many people, places, and things as you possibly can -- that's the best revenge on the unjust brevity of this fragile life.

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.

There never was a Child so lovely but his Mother was glad to see him asleep. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sorrow.

J'avais surpris mon cher surhomme en flagrant délit d'humanité : je sentis que je l'en aimais davantage. Alors, je chantai la farandole, et je me mis à danser au soleil.

In the solitary farmhouse of the hills there was a great joy in life, much tenderness, and much hope.

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was long ago demolished. And in myself, too, many things have perished which I imagined would last for ever, and new ones have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are hard to understand.

Our desires interweave with one another; and in the confusion of existence, it is seldom that a joy is promptly paired with the desire that longed for it.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls bloom.