Quotes About Joy

When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.

Gratitude, always. Always, gratitude.

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can't be replaced by anything else.

We had more fun waiting in line together at the Department of Motor Vehicles than most couples have on their honeymoons. We gave each other same nickname, so there would be no separation between us. We made goals, vows, promises and dinner together. He read books to me...

Only when we are at our most playful can divinity finally get serious with us.

The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: "So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun.

Pure creativity is something better than a necessity; it's a gift. It's the frosting. Our creativity is a wild and unexpected bonus from the universe. It's as if all our gods and angels gathered together and said, "It's tough down there as a human being, we know. Here—have some delights.

El final es el mismo, así que mejor si el viaje es feliz.

She loved it even more than ever, perhaps, because now, as an adult, she finally had the perspective to appreciate the value of her own joy.

Life was just unbelievably happy.

Do whatever brings you to life, then.

We are fiddle, fork, and spoon, We are dancing with the moon, If you'd like to steal a kiss from us, You'd better steal one soon!

Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live

There's another wonderful Italian expression: l'arte d'arrangiarsi-the art of making something out of nothing. The art of turning a few simple ingredients into a feast,or a few gathered friends into a festival. Anyone with a talent of happiness can do this, not only the rich.

We must risk delight," he wrote. "We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

There's this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it.

So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun.

She's a cheerful soul who's having a wonderful time living out the existence that best suits her nature and most brings her to life.

He didn't so much teach them how to write poetry, they said, but why: because of delight. Because of stubborn gladness

the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity.

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.")

The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash.

My ultimate choice, then, is to always approach my work from a place of stubborn gladness.

my work loves me as much as I love it—that it wants to play with me as much as I want to play with it—and that this source of love and play is boundless.