Quotes About Joy

Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Ogni vera gioia ha una paura dentro.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

There was so much pure fun in the world that it didn't pay to grow up too soon.

And romantic," she added, smiling at the man whose deep-set blue eyes now saw everything so clearly, "but I never dreamed it would turn out so wonderfully for all of us.

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.

Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure.

I like dogs Big dogs Little dogs Fat dogs Doggy dogs Old dogs Puppy dogs I like dogs A dog that is barking over the hill A dog that is dreaming very still A dog that is running wherever he will I like dogs.

looked out of her window at the road below and the glimpse of the Strand beyond. Buses and cars tore noisily by, and people jostled on the pavements. Life was down there, bustling and real: love, death, birth, misery and vice; and some joy, she supposed.

Joy and truth both have a way of peeking through any dark curtain.

People danced a lot then. I miss that.

He asked so little of life that its frugal bounty amazed and delighted him.

A smile becomes you or perhaps you become you when you smile.

I hope you get the good weather" she said. "And I hope you"ll be very, very happy." As I walked down the winding street people kept smiling at me--first two middle aged women, then a woman with a baby, then a grizzled man in a tweed cap and anorak, then two girls my own age. When a boy on a tricycle beamed at me, I finally understood it was because of my own broad smile.

Life is only lived full-time by women with children.

Gee Whillakers!" whistled Benjamin. "Think of owning a trick pup and never knowing it!" He scratched Whiskers behind his upstanding black ear, and then behind her floppy white ear. He smoothed her whiskery face. "Think of it," he repeated softly, "Whiskers a trick pup! Me with a trick pup!

Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own.

During the earliest attacks of Fear and intense unreality, I sometimes uttered these unconscious and shocking words: 'I should prefer to escape into madness to avoid this consuming fear.' Alas, I did not know what I was saying. In my ignorance I believed that madness was a state of insensibility where there was neither pain nor suffering nor joy, but particularly, no responsibility. Never, for one instant, has I even imagined what 'to lose one's reason' actually meant.

Cânt?, Maria, fluxul, cânt?-l acum când te biruie, strig?-l acum, când se n?ruie, valul, deasupra. Tremur?, fir, ?i te bucur?; ropotul iar o s?-nceap?, bol?ile-s negre de ap? neodihnit?.

The Playwright was excited in the way a child is excited on Christmas morning. I liked this. Most people didn't get excited about anything other than their own discontent.

Eventually, ecstatic, she outlasted the night.