Quotes About Joy

What's life worth if you can't have some fun?

As a kid, being with her was easy; it was the nearest to heaven I've ever been.

All roads in life lead nowhere. So you might as well take the road that has the most heart and is the most fun. —Anonymous Zen saying

Boys everywhere. All seven of them plus their dad, running and laughing and shoving each other around on the front lawn, engaged in what appeared to be a full-contact, tackle version of ultimate Frizbee. They were playing shirts and skins. Shirts and might-fine-lookin' skins.

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of the joy that kills.

A general air of surprise and genuine satisfaction fell upon everyone as they saw the pianist enter.

It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.

And he discovered, finally, the source of the honey-sweet sound. The sound was music. The sound was King Phillip playing his guitar and singing for his daughter, the Princess Pea, every night before she fell asleep. Hidden in a hole in the wall of the princess's bedroom, the mouse listened with all his heart. The sound of the King's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him. Oh, he said, it sounds like heaven. It smells like honey.

It was the strangest things, how happiness came out of nowhere and inflated your soul.

Nothing is more terrifying to evil than joy.

The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.

She was terribly pleased, because she had always, secretly, deep within her heart, believed that she could fly. And now here she was, doing what she had long suspected she could do, and she could not deny that it was gratifying in the extreme.

Mon Dieu, look, look, says Antoinette. He lives. He lives! And he seems such the happy mouse. Forgiven, whispers Lester. Cripes, says Furlough, unbelievable. Just so, says the threadmaster, Hovis, smiling. Just so. And, reader, it is just so. Isn't it?

Well now, look at that," she said. "That dog is smiling at me." "It's a talent of his," I told her. "It is a fine talent," Miss Franny said. "A very fine talent." And she smiled back at Winn-Dixie. "We could be friends," I said to Miss Franny. "I mean you and me and Winn-Dixie, we could all be friends.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

It's hard not to immediately fall in love with a dog who has a good sense of humor.

I could see dust motes dancing around joyfully in the air. What do dust motes have to be so happy about?

In my dream, you are standing in front of the vending machine from the Good Night, Sleep Tight, and you are smiling at me, using all of your teeth. You say, Select anything you want', darling. Provisions have been made. Provisions have been made. I am so happy when you show up in my dream and say those words to me.

It is a wondrous thing to be at the top of a tree. When you have two Oh Henry! bars to eat. And a bag of peanuts.

He was glad to be alive. ... In fact, Edward Tulane was so happy to be back among the living that he did not even take umbrage at being referred to as it.

To be alive makes up for everything; there ought to be fears in my heart, but there aren't; something stronger sweeps them out; something like a wind.

Do not mourn over the happiness you were fortunate enough to possess, lest you turn that joy into grief. Be glad that you had what others may never in their lives experience. The gods have dealt kindly with you, Daughter.

I was afraid this day would never come, she whispered. He cupped her face in his hands. I told you love works magic.

By fire, fever, storm and sword, your blood shall suffer this bane. No peace or joy for Wintersloe's lord, till the puzzle ring is whole again