Quotes About Joy

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When you drink, drink deeply. Drink deeply of the moonlight drink deeply of the dark of the loneliness of the joy. You will never drain the moonlight you can never end the dark. In your eyes, the flash of joy in your mouth, the sweet shock of honey You are the joy you are the loneliness. Drink deep.

I need . . . I need your God. I have watched you and . . . and you have such joy. Such peace. Both you and Zoe. How I long for it. But, Julia, I cannot go to your meeting to find it. Your father would be very angry. He might disown both of us.

All problems can be solved over ice cream!

I don't think anyone "finds" joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts so we can keep them open to what is difficult

altruistic side effects include reduced stress; improved immune system functioning; a sense of joy, peace, and well-being; and even relief from physical and emotional pain.

to have fun do things and play with my friends

I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.

I defy anyone to think of the name Dean Martin and not smile. Now, that's amore.

Life is too uncertain... You must seize happiness where you find it.

Julia, we are all children at Christmastime." "You are not," I pointed out. He gave me a shadowy smile. "I think you told me once I was born old.

It isn't your anger that will make you good at this job. It is your joy.

You have suffered a terrible blow, but you shall recover. You are young and strong, and you will feel this pain acutely because as yet in your life you have not suffered much. But you must believe me when I tell you that this will be blunted, the edge will not cut so deep after a while. You will enjoy life again, and you will laugh and love and weep for others.

rose in one great flap of those enormous wings and lifted itself above my head, out of reach and beyond the horizon before I realized what was happening. It was like watching a miracle of creation, and I felt no loss at its passing away from me but only joy that I had been, for however fleeting a time, connected with it.

It isn't your anger that will make you good at this job. It's your joy.

It is madness," Brisbane said, and he laughed until tears gathered in his eyes. "It may be madness, but it is an entirely March Christmas," I told him. "And do not forget, this is only half the family. The rest will be here for Twelfth Night." But that is a tale for another time.

The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness.

Someone walking toward you is such a simple, happy-to-be-alive thing.