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Quotes About Joy

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Cats, like butterflies, need no excuse.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
God made alcohol and he made feet - and he made 'em so you could put 'em together and be happy!
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Give the future enough thought to be ready for it—but don't worry about it. Live each day as if you were to die next sunrise. Then face each sunrise as a fresh creation and live for it, joyously. And never think about the past. No regrets, ever.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Happiness consists in getting enough sleep.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Look, kids, I've seen every possible type of joy house and pleasure dome. Happiness is in the heart, not in that stuff.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Hice un descubrimiento muy importante en el campamento Currie: la felicidad consiste en dormir suficiente.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
We don't like anything that is "simple": To us "simple" means dull or dense or stupid. We have forgotten that simplicity is a need in human life: It is the human art of finding meaning and joy in the small, natural, and less dramatic things.
~ Robert A. Johnson
I would hate to be taken seriously. Serious people are always so grim and uptight that they make me want to dance naked on the lawn playing a flute.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
and their stern Father God demands endless sacrifices, offers no joy on earth but only duty blindly obeyed, and threatens sadistic tortures (for an infinite number of years, according to some theologians) to anyone who crosses him. It almost seems as if history, at least in the Occident, repeats the pattern Freud found in the nursery, from oral bliss to anal anxiety.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
He said after reading Illuminatus! he laughed so much that he got over his paranoia.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Suki and I danced a
~ Robert B. Parker
Susan said, Ã¢â'¬Å"Have you given any thought to how we should spend Christmas?" "Only that we should be together." I glanced over at the softly snoring Pearl. "With Pearl, of course. Hawk, too. Maybe
~ Robert B. Parker
Susan laughed. I always loved the sound of her laughter. And to have caused it was worth the west side of heaven.
~ Robert B. Parker
Life with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love, How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.
~ Robert Browning
Have you found your life distasteful? My life did and does smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I save and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
~ Robert Browning
Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all! Not for such hopes and fears Annulling youth's brief years, Do I remonstrate: folly wide the mark! Rather I prize the doubt Low kinds exist without, Finished and finite clods, untroubled by a spark. Poor vaunt of life indeed, Were man but formed to feed On joy, to solely seek and find and feast; Such feasting ended, then As sure an end to men.
~ Robert Browning
Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet, in the moment Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gi'es to me.
~ Robert Burns
But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often askew, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy! Still you are blest, compared with me!
~ Robert Burns
The possibility of sadness is tightly bound to the capacity for joy. A godly sadness is as precious in the eyes of the Lord as the joy that corresponds to it.
~ Robert Campbell Roberts
She made them all laugh and forget for a moment that they were dying men.
~ Robert Coover
Happiness is a way of traveling and not a destination
~ Robert Cormier
Larkin pushed the accelerator and felt the wind lift her hair. She bore south on Vine, then east on Wilshire, laughing as her eyes grew wet. Light poles flicked past; red or green, it didn't matter and she didn't care. Honking horns were lost in the rush. Her long hair, the color of pennies, whipped and lashed. She closed her eyes, held them closed, kept them shut even longer, then popped them wide and laughed that she still flew straight and true—
~ Robert Crais
This is the way I spent my sumer vacation. I got a new girls too wheeler for my birthday in july and all sumer I rode my too wheeler its a speshul delux too wheeler with a siren a seled beem hedlite a basket and wife side walled tires. The color is read with wife strips. I like my too wheeler its the best one on the street and wen I ride by the other kids are jelus. I rode by than all sumer. "D.
~ Robert F. Young