Quotes About Joy

Whipped cream can remind you why it's good to be alive.

Love in its purest form. Not television love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess. But just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.

He was like one great big Sunday afternoon -- the kind where you stay in your PJs and watch movies and eat popcorn. Where life is at it's uncomplicated best.

He] made me feel…large, maybe. In a way I hadn't before. But he didn't know that. For all he knew, I was always that large. It felt good. Fun. Unexpectedly large is sudden, magic levitation—you're high, an impervious Balloon of Joy.

And if you could make a choice, then why not pick happiness?

We looked at each other and smiled like we just discovered something wonderful, maybe kissing itself, something no one else ever figured out. It seemed like ours, a terrific secret.

And maybe that's the closest definition for the word we can get, a life equation: An absence of wanting equals happiness.

And, oh, I am riding such a high, full wave of love that I have to fall. Of course I have to. Of course, because life and love is joy and pain, fullness and emptiness, highs and lows, tide in, tide out. I will have to fall hard from that high wave, smack right down on my sorry face, but we are not at that part of the story yet.

Right there— the hope of bacon is a reason to love life.

Laughter lights up the darkness.

It's great to be here.

Allow your mood to be sweet and your day will be sweet too.

Dance with the clouds.

Happiness is a hot bath on a Sunday afternoon.

The more you focus on fun, the more fun you have.

Dance when the sun comes up.

Grace is the fruit of gratitude.

By making sad ones happy, we find our happiness!

True joy comes from operating with Inner-directedness and recognizing who you are.

It is better to think of all the beauties of life than to be bitter.

Maturity is for serious people. Let us be immature and have endless fun.

In the times of trouble, be like the strong wall. In the times of joy, be like the smiling sun.

The ultimate purpose of education is to learn how to find and see the beauty of creation so that you may feel the joy of life.

Education is a savings account that you fill by learning and by spending. Even if you spend for the rest of your life, it will only grow to give you joy.