Quotes About Joy

Does [your music] have to be a job? And as for your actual job...do you have to think of [it] as a consolation prize? ...What if you just *played*? Isn't it possible you'd also like your job more, because you wouldn't think of it as something that's secretly had to replace this other thing?

Life is short. No need for it to be boring too.

We didn't have wings, but we could dance.

One must have sorrow to truly appreciate joy.

Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy.

Yeah. That boy over there. He's my friend.' My gaze followed his pointing finger toward a little boy wearing a stuffed steering wheel attached around his waist and running around a racetrack laid out on the floor. 'Oh, yeah? What's his name?' 'I don't know.' Simon shrugged, unconcerned, and headed back to the playground. I watched him leap right into the game with a friend whose name didn't matter.

I didn't emerge from the cocoon of my past to become an uninhibited, emotionally healthy butterfly. Nothing is ever that easy. Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we want to be happy, if we could. So why, then, is pain the one thing we most often hold on to? Why are slights and griefs the memories on which we choose to dwell? Is it because joy doesn't last but grief does?

Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we want to be happy, if we could. So why, then, is pain the one thing we most often hold on to? Why are slights and griefs the memories on which we choose to dwell? Is it because joy doesn't last but grief does?

Observation is a great joy." To write one's observations, record such wonderings, the greatest joy of all.

Work *is* depressing, if you don't love what you do" -Drea

It's how my ma raised me, after all, to live in JOY: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.

And for the first time all summer, The Mall was exactly where I wanted to be.

I never understood the point if being sad when I could choose to be happy.

For the first time in my life, I wasn't thinking about what would happen in the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years to come. I was right there in the moment, my world finally, albeit briefly, complete. And I was happy. Deliriously, deliciously happy.

Squeenk! Ribbet!

I look up at his eyes brightening through the tears. I haven't seen them shine like that in over a year.

Don't Worry; be Happy! Remember Me; I will help you.

Don't worry Be Happy !!!

A beautiful road is a beautiful friend; you never get bored with it!

A beautiful smile without any reason is the smile of the existence!

A child can be very happy with very simple things; adult must do the same!

A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!

All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster!

An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time!