Quotes About Joy

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.

Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.

Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

Without realizing who you are, happiness cannot come to you.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.

A good time for laughing is when you can.

Happiness is the best facelift.

These are beautiful days. Folks ask what I'm doing. I tell them I'm doing family.

One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.

If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance.

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.

The things that make us happy make us wise.

The only way I can describe it-at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you know how his heart grows like five times? Everything is full; it's just full all the time.

There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.

Never let anyone steal your joy.

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes people less self-focused and more altruistic.

The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their imagination, that is one of the reasons that keeps them so exhilarated.

Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

Happiness hides in life's small details. If you're not looking, it becomes invisible.