Quotes About Joy

What life is there, what delight, without golden Aphrodite?

Every child should be wanted

He looked so happy, and it pleased her to see him like this. She could count on him to be a happy person.

Lately, Sunja wanted to hold babies. How wonderful it would be not to have to worry about a war or having enough food to eat, or finding shelter. Solomon and Phoebe wouldn't have to labor the way she and Kyunghee had, but could just enjoy their children.

Learning was like playing, not labor.

In real life, shouldn't a wedding be an awesome party you throw with your great pal, in the presence of a bunch of your other friends? A great day, for sure, but not the beginning and certainly not the end of your friendship with a person you can't wait to talk about gardening with the for the next forty years.

the best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.

Playful arguments would become fits of uncontrollable laughter, and, like magic, that experience would be crystallized into a private joke, and the private joke would get boiled down to a simple phrase, which became a souvenir of the entire experience. For years to come, the phrase alone could uncork hours of renewed laughter. And as everyone knows, the best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.

In the Shakespearean comedies, the wedding is the end, and there isn't much indication of what happily ever after will look like day to day. In real life, shouldn't a wedding be an awesome party you throw with your great pal, in the presence of a bunch of your other friends? A great day, for sure, but not the beginning and certainly not the end of your friendship with a person you can't wait to talk about gardening with for the next forty years.

And as everyone knows, the best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.

Playful arguments would become fits of uncontrollable laughter, and, like magic, that experience would be crystallized into a private joke, and the private joke would get boiled down to a simple phrase, which became a

Die in a good way, obviously.

This has been one of the best days of my life," she said.

And so our reunion was like countless others: the tear of joy were mixed with tears of sorrows, the laughing merging with the weeping. For every one of us who rejoiced at finding a loved one alive, there was someone else who mourned the dead. And those who had survived often had taken the place of someone more worthy who had die.

that even while caught in a stormy sea, they must keep dancing, dance on through the rolling waves so that when they finally surged up toward the open air, their grace and joy would light up the world.

Keep life simple… turn toward the divine. It satisfies, it brings knowledge, and it brings joy.

The bride and groom — May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.

To laughter! The bright coinage of the bank of good will.

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

Dil-o-Dilli donon agar hain kharaab Pa kuchh lutf is ujde ghar mein bhi hain

Fun is the glue of love.

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

You know what? Forget what I just said. You're already a part of this. You will eat, you will laugh at stupid things, you will stay up all night just to see what it feels like, you will fall painfully in love, you will have babies of your own, you will doubt and regret and yearn and keep a secret. You will get old and decrepit, and you will die, exhausted from all that living.

They were sparkling with the old love, the greatest love of my lifetime. And they were triumphant.