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Quotes About Joy

That it is impossible to be useful and sad.
~ Noah Hawley
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~ Noah Hawley
Work is more fun than fun.
~ Noel Coward
Grab it while you can — grab every scrap of happiness while you can
~ Noel Coward
Jimmy Buffett, Mr. Margaritaville, said that if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
~ Unknown
Thank you, but I take no joy in my wedding." "Of course you don't, but still, you must act the part. I often take no joy in my spinsterhood; I have no babes to fill my arms, and yet by acting the part of it, I convince myself that I am not lonely. And sometimes it works.
~ Unknown
the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.
~ Nora Ephron
Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.
~ Nora Ephron
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
~ Nora Roberts
Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day.
~ Norah Vincent
For the first time Saya understood how people can grow accustomed to war. Intensified by the stark contrast between life and death, fleeting moments of joy such as these could make one almost mad with happiness.
~ Unknown
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
~ Norm Papernick
I try to make people smile and dance, not think about things or educate them.
~ Unknown
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
~ Norman Cousins
ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.
~ Norman Cousins
Laughter is inner jogging.
~ Norman Cousins
Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions
~ Norman Cousins
Not every illness can be overcome. But many people allow illness to disfigure their lives more than it should. They cave in needlessly. They ignore and weaken whatever powers they have for standing erect. There is always a margin within which life can be lived with meaning and even with a certain measure of joy, despite illness.
~ Norman Cousins
Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power, has that ability to comfort.
~ Unknown
Rumpus Bumpus,
~ Norman Lindsay
Anna and I did not make love. I don't remember why. Maybe we didn't need to. She might have been afraid, although I doubt she was afraid of much. She'd been a midwife before she opened a studio; she'd held life in her hands, like a wire from a galvanic cell. Maybe death was too strong in me for an act so inspirited with life. Although I sometimes think that death is what gives lovemaking its desperate and terrible joy.
~ Norman Lock
mediocra noastr? diminea?? friguroas?, îng?duitoare, înaint?m, cu toate dup? noi, calendar, certificate, cartograme, primejdii, pove?ti, pozne, podoabe, a?teptarea rece pueril? a zilei, pedeapsa noastr?, bucurie dezn?dejde, desaga fiec?ruia.
~ Unknown
Causing active ongoing pleasure in your mate is something people tend to restrict to the sexual realm or getting attractive food on the table on time, but keeping permanent intimate comedy going is more important than any other one thing.
~ Norman Rush
The bride and groom stand beneath the Chuppa (bridal canopy), symbolizing their new home, and seven blessings are recited, a cup of wine again being shared. The couple are blessed, and the groom smashes a glass, recalling the destruction of Jerusalem even on his most joyful day.
~ Unknown