Quotes About Joy

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

School's-out-for-summer!!

Nine-year-old girls are perfect humans,

Why did we stop running and playing? We loved it so much. Who made the rule that the child's pleasure in the body must come to an end? I blame the Puritans!

Anche se tendiamo a credere il contrario, la gioia si condivide meno della sventura.

For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born.

Imagine the martyrdom of a pun which has become an integral portion of one's organism to be lugged through life like the convict's ball and chain. Do you suppose he vainly tries to escape it, or is he passive in its clutches or can it be possible that some memory of the joy still survives which irradiated his being, the first time he heard it from his lips in the springtime of his practice?

One of the less savory notions of the early Church was that of the abominable fancy, the idea that part of the joy of the saved lay in contemplating the tortures of the damned.

It was in its strangeness and in its familiarity an illustration of someone else's life going on in its own way, steeped in itself, its own business, its own dailyness, its own particular sorrow or joy, all of it more or less predictable

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.

May everyday be the best possible day it can be

I don't have a casual life, but exist to be possessed by misery, grace, or laughter.

YOU MUST NEVER SLEEP UNDER A MAGNOLIA when the tree begins to flower like a glimpse of Flesh when the flower begins to smell as if its roots have reached the layer of Thirst upon the unsealed jar of Joy Alice, you should never sleep under so much pure pale so many shriek-mouthed blooms as if Patience had run out of Patience

and hearing the lurch the well-known slap of joy

To feel the sun and see the orange light leak through the skin of my eyelids is copacetic-squared. Sight

Swellegant is glamour, power, originality, and more. Swellegant is graceful power completely unaligned with God or this world's ethics. Swellegant is bursting with the pagan joy and pagan pleasure of being beautiful and fruitful.

Some people are so sweet you can't hold the thought of them and trouble in the same mind at the same time.

After all, watching a child march successfully into the larger world is one of the greatest satisfactions parenthood has to offer.

There's such joy and fearless in that face, isn't there? It's like the look you see on a child's face before the age of reason sets in.

No feeling compares to having others love what you love, and then enthusiastically sharing it with others. Fame for the sake of fame had never been the dream. But spreading light is a pleasure I'll always live for.

Every moment is beautiful; delicious even!

Live to learn, learn to laugh and laugh to live.

Ik weet het weer... Glenlyon. De laird van Lyndsay. Prinses Alice. Já!' Nick deed een stap naar voren, zijn gezicht stond opgetogen. 'Het komt allemaal terug... eindelijk!' En toen dook Claire in zijn armen die zich voor haar hadden geopend en haar vasthielden.

Dan begrijp je maar al te goed waarom je nergens een volwassene ziet rondspringen die zegt: 'Joepie, ik ben een loonslaaf! Wat heb ik toch een pret!' - David (Claire's vader)