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Quotes About Joy

Life is too fragile and valuable to be spent doing something you hate.
~ Duncan Bannatyne
let's live suddenly without thinking under honest trees
~ E .E. Cummings
and kisses are a better fate than wisdom
~ e. e. cummings
In fact, some neurologists now say that the basic human need is to be the "sparkle in someone's eye." When you catch a glimpse of a child's face as she runs toward an awaiting parent with arms outstretched in unrestrained joy, you can witness firsthand that incredible power that comes from "being the sparkle in someone's eye.
~ E. James Wilder
The joy of being with others at school, or finding protection from authority figures was lost. Being very small and hurt, with no way to protect himself, he began to behave defiantly against the principal, who punished him abusively.
~ E. James Wilder
I could tell that she felt happy.  Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
twice I have lived forever in a smile
~ E.E. Cummings
I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air.
~ E.E. Cummings
existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)
~ E.E. Cummings
Always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves.
~ E.E. Cummings
Here's to opening and upward... and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
~ E.E. Cummings
O sweet spontaneous earth
~ E.E. Cummings
i charge laughing. Into the hair-thin tints of yellow dawn, into the women-coloured twilight
~ E.E. Cummings
you shall above all things be glad and young
~ E.E. Cummings
losing through you what seemed myself,i find selves unimaginably mine;beyond sorrow's own joys and hoping's very fears yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return —you are my sun,my moon,and all my stars
~ E.E. Cummings
lovers like rej and lena smile(while looming darkly a kindness of fragrance opens around them)and whisper their joy under entirely the coming quitenotimaginable silenceofsound
~ E.E. Cummings
Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are. True happiness comes of not knowing you're happy, it's an animal serenity, something between contentment and joy, a steadiness of the belonged self in the world.
~ E.L. Doctorow
Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are.
~ E.L. Doctorow
I made myself a glass of chocolate milk using enough syrup for three normal glasses. I also made myself four peanut butter crackers. Then I walked out the living room door to our terrace. The trees were coming! New green was all over ... green so new that it was kissing yellow.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Smile and thank God, that you are alive today!
~ Ebelsain Villegas
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
~ Eckhart Tolle
As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness
~ Eckhart Tolle
All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.
~ Eckhart Tolle