Quotes About Joy

L'Albin, avec sa procession de joueurs d'harmonicas

He walked briskly.    He was all wrapped up in his joy.    He was filled with songs, packed in his throat and pressing against his teeth. He puckered up his lips.    It was a joy of which he wanted to savour all the smell and taste the juice as long as possible, like a sheep eating grass in the evening among the hills. He went on like that, until the beautiful silence had settled within him and around him, like a meadow.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

You are the guest of joy, you cannot impose yourself.

Ayla just didn't seem like a woman who was about to join and establish a new hearth with a man she loved. There was no joy, no excitement. Something was missing. Something called Jondalar.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Truly, were I every evening to depict sunrise, and every morning to see it, still I should cry, like the children, Once more, once more!

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Play is the work of childhood.

happiness heldis the seed happiness shared is the flower, happiness seems to be shared

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

The joy of giving can uplift the saddened heart.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bliss and joy come in moments of living our highest truth --- moments when what we do is consistent with our archetypal depths. It's when we are most authentic and trusting, and feel that whatever we are doing, which can be quite ordinary, is nonetheless sacred.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Happy, Muriel? No, not happy. Your aim is wrong. There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death.

There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them.

They're happy.' 'Yes, like animals . . . mindlessly!

Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weaknesses are accepted as part of our humanity can our negative, broken self-images be transformed.