Quotes About Joy

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.

Back then I thought I was the unluckiest person in the world, then I looked at you and smiled. Why? Because no matter how unlucky I was, it was worth it because of you.

For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere...

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.

There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.

Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.

I don't know what I did to deserve you...but whatever the heck it was I'm sure glad I did it!

She [Sadie Thompson] was a girl who knew how to be gay even when she was sad. And that's important--you know?

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

I adore him. I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Love is a great beautifier.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love

There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.