Quotes About Joy

Sometimes happiness comes to us. But usually you have to seek it out.

how can you survive what life throws at you if you cannot laugh and love, and are they not the same thing?

It's all I really want—happiness, every day for the rest of my life. Sometimes happiness comes to us. But usually you have to seek it out.

Uncle Albert fished in a canvas bag for bread, wine, cheese, and dried salami. The Beltraminis broke out five ripe cantaloupes. Pino's father sat in the grass next to his violin case, his arms wrapped around his knees and an enchanted look on his face

I'm a student of happiness, you know. It's all I really want—happiness, every day for the rest of my life. Sometimes happiness comes to us. But usually you have to seek it out. I read that somewhere.

I'm a student of happiness, you know. It's all I really want—happiness, every day for the rest of my life. Sometimes happiness comes to us. But usually you have to seek it out.

Sometimes happiness comes to us. But usually you have to seek it out. I read that somewhere.

Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can't fathom." "You sound like you do a lot of thinking in your shop," Pino said, wiping the sweat from his eyes. Luigi laughed. "A lot of thinking. A lot of talking. A lot of reading. It is . . ." The joy left his voice. "It was my home.

Awww, well, my young friend, how can you survive what life throws at you if you cannot laugh and love, and are they not the same thing?

Despite all the death he saw that morning, Pino knew something had changed in Milan overnight, some critical point had been reached and passed while he'd been partying and sleeping, because the streets near Porta Venezia were crowded and boisterous. Violins played. Accordions, too. People danced and hugged and laughed and cried. Pino felt as if the spirit of the party at the Hotel Diana had moved outside and seduced everyone celebrating the end of a long and terrible ordeal.

Just dance, and smile, and let your body speak the language of love.

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy must have somebody to divide it with.

Live simple, love well, and take time to smell the flowers along the way.

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter. The moment it arises, all your irritations and resentments slip away, and the sunny spirit takes their place.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart — a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

When you're three, you're into custard, and jumping.