Quotes About Joy

There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth." Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, the prosperity of the school, and understanding the Lethani. If I have time left after that, I will put it toward worrying on the truth.

laughter is good for the digestion.

It seems to me a person needs something to be happy about, and I don't have any such thing.

My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day. The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years. Afterward,

Meus pais dançaram juntos, mamãe com a cabeça no peito dele. Ambos tinham os olhos fechados. Pareciam perfeitamente felizes. Quem consegue encontrar alguém assim, alguém a quem abraçar e com quem fechar os olhos para o mundo, é uma pessoa de sorte. Mesmo que dure apenas um minuto, ou um dia. A imagem deles balançando suavemente ao som da música é como visualizo mentalmente o amor, mesmo decorridos tantos anos.

No hay nada mejor en el mundo que la dulce sonrisa de una mujer joven.

He was finally able to bask in his own existence; and he found it splendid.

These were virtuoso odours, executed as wonderful little trifles that of course no one but he could admire or would ever take note of. He was enchanted by their meaningless perfection; and at no time in his life, either before or after, were there moments of such truly innocent happiness as in those days when he playfully and eagerly set about creating fragrant landscapes, still lifes and studies of individual objects.

Maireann dóchas is gliodar. Translated into English it meant hope & happiness never die.

When you see true evil, it changes you forever. It wants to make sure laughter and joy die a violent death, but the best it can manage is to put them on life support. It's up to the rest of us to make sure they don't stay there." -John Murphy, Bartender at Bulfinche's Pub

We need to grab joy whenever and wherever we find it. Certainly

We're have arrived," announced Eric. "Let joy be unconfined. Or at least let out on bail." Frighteningly

Mickey's laugh is real and sounds like it comes from someplace warm in her heart.

People with no humor, they're outta my life.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

I'm off balance, not sure what's wrong. —You have misplaced joy, he said without hesitation. Without joy, we are as dead. —How do I find it again? —Find those who have it and bathe in their perfection.

These things were in my mind from the first moment I entered the vocal booth. The gratitude I had for rock and roll as it pulled me through a difficult adolescence. The joy I experienced when I danced. The moral power I gleaned in taking responsibility for one's action.-- Patti Smith

You have misplaced joy, he said without hesitation. Without joy, we are as dead. —How do I find it again? —Find those who have it and bathe in their perfection.

Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures.

Laughter. An essential ingredient for survival. And we laughed a lot.

He flashed a huge smile, one of absolute joy, from a place of no beginning or end.

Observing people taking in the work I had watched Robert create was an emotional experience. It had left our private world. It was what I had always wanted for him, but I felt a slight pang of possessiveness sharing it with others. Overriding that feeling was the joy of seeing Robert's face, suffused with confirmation, as he glimpsed the future he had so resolutely sought and had worked so hard to achieve.

May the world's small things fill her with delight.