Quotes About Joy

You could always make me laugh, you listened to my pain, you turned my nights into sunshine when my days had often been rain.

Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.

I could be crying for a countless number of reasons, but I'm smiling cause of one: YOU.

Love is kind, beautiful, and gives you the warmest feeling inside.

When I want to smile, I know exactly what to do.. I just close my eyes and think of you.

Happiness is not about being loved, it's about loving someone else.

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

That feeling you get when you see him happy and you found out you're the reason behind his SMILES :]

Living simply makes loving simple.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity of living in the moment, and spend every dull, amazing second with me.

There is so little joy for the here and now in the uncertainties of the whens and thens.

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played. If only I could feel that sense of total absorption in what I was doing when I was doing other things. It was more than absorption, it was spontaneity, competence, a sense of grace and playfulness, of being in touch with an inexhaustible source of energy and beauty.

You know, there's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.

Melissa and I are the proudest parents ever and this is the best thing that has happened to us this year!

it's difficult to be curious and unhappy at the same time. Re-igniting

the act of smiling can itself make you happy. It

There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.

You're the type who will perish from exuberance.

his "ma guarda che roba, but will you look at this," when he sees the flowers and then his tinkering search for the espresso pot while I'm pulling on shorts and sandals, shouting down, "Why don't we just run up the hill for cappuccini?

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.