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Quotes About Joy

Das Glück ist das einzige, das sich verdoppelt, wenn man es teilt.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The only ones among us who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.
~ Albert Schweitzer
I remember one woman making paper flowers to sell, with different herbs . . . She made them so fast, and so many . . . that as I watched, her first few zinnias became quickly enough a few hundred, and grew in their happiness to the size of sunflowers. The sunflowers themselves grew to the size of pumpkins, the snapdragons grew ominous, and the rosemary fragrant.
~ Alberto Alvaro Ríos
Sinto uma alegria enorme Ao pensar que a minha morte não tem importância nenhuma.
~ Alberto Caeiro
It might have seemed ridiculous to anyone watching, this white-haired maintenance worker, all alone, making like an airplane. But the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.
~ Albom, Mitch
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
~ Aldous Huxley
When you're young, no matter how many unpleasant things have happened to you (unless by that time you've become hopelessly neurotic), hope returns daily, even hourly. The sight of a beautiful person, bird, tree, house, flower can lift your spirits like a thermal does the wings of a gliding gull!
~ Alec Wilder
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
~ Aleister Crowley
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
~ Aleister Crowley
Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.
~ Aleister Crowley
my fear, my joy more horrible than my fear, my obscene words, my words which are keys locking me into a mirror, with you, but ever alone.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Como la boca llena de risa, como el sexo lleno de semen,
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Labios plegados sobre dientes felices.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
No le pida nunca nada a la vida. Espere... y algún día la vida le dará una sorpresa maravillosa.
~ Alejandro Casona
La risa? ¡Qué cosa extraña! Es un temblor alegre que corre por dentro, como las ardillas por un árbol hueco. Pero luego restalla en la cintura, y hace aflojar las rodillas…
~ Alejandro Casona
Nadie debe confundir el amor con la dicha. Al contrario: a veces se piensa que amor y pena son una misma cosa.
~ Alejandro Dolina
In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.
~ Alejo Carpentier
We stood there, squeezing each other's hands as though trying to press through the flesh to the bones and then beyond. She kissed my cheek and neck, and I felt the joy of omnipresent love -- everything around me speaking about me with affection, and Mary was listening.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Shiny teeth were footnote to her smile.
~ Aleksandar Hemon