Quotes About Joy

A laugh is a smile that bursts.

Hello," he said. "Tom?" A whoop of joy. "Alice, where are you? Are you all right?" "Never better, Tom. And you?

Be a loyal friend. Be a kind person. Work hard. And choose to be happy.

C'est fou, quand on a huit ans, il n'y a rien de tel qu'une pizza pepperoni pour vous rendre heureux.

The jazz funeral celebrates the fact that the person who died is free now to dance on the other side.

Human beings were meant to love, and life was empty without that.

Small pleasures are the best because they're everywhere. Anyone who needs grand spectacles is destined to be disappointed much of the time.

A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close, the desire to experience that again was hard to deny.

Mom! It was so awesome," Maggy enthused. "Me and Roo had our own hurricane party. The seagulls were, like, flying backward. And the clouds are so thick, you can't even see Big Belle.

Thessalonians 5:18) Give thanks every day. Make it an exercise. While you glorify God, you will help yourself. You will look on the sunny side of life, you will enjoy your life, and you will help others enjoy their lives. Giving thanks honors God. Also the exercise helps you to be better, feel better, and look better.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.

Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

He who laughs, lasts!

In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose this. Joy hit him like a lightning-bolt.

She stood laughing in the water. Her laughter made my backbone ripple. It had neither shame nor shamelessness; she laughed alone, please with her victory over strange monstrous things.

Just lately I have been happier than I ever had the right to expect, and as one goes around the world one sees that happiness is hard to come by and seldom lasts for long.

I stretched out my hand to Poseidon, but he sent no sign. He was away perhaps, shaking the earth somewhere. All about us I felt another power, dark, past man's thoughts, giver of desolation or of joy, she who can cherish or cast away but abides no question.

grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

There is no doubt that a really first-class fire, when no fear for human life intrudes, is one of the great atavistic joys still known to man. Today it is very shocking to think of archaeological treasures burning; to Macedonians and still more to Greeks, the significance of Persepolis was rather different.

She stood laughing in the water. Her laughter made my backbone ripple. It had neither shame nor shamelessness; she laughed alone, pleased with her victory over strange monstrous things.