Quotes About Joy

Follow not after vanity, nor after the enjoyment of love and lust! He who is earnest and meditative, obtains ample joy.

you had to have happiness to miss happiness!

the walls of her vagina tightening around me as she laughed.

my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit up and he wrapped me in his arms as if it was Christmas morning and I was the best gift imaginable.

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.

Denounce useless guilt. Don't make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.

We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it.

aphrodite's laughter shakes the sky

Did I want to dance? Of course I did and that's not all.

And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision.

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M'sieur Ibrahim, quand je dis que c'est un truc de gens riches, le sourire, je veux dire que c'est un truc pour les gens heureux. - Eh bien, c'est là que tu te trompes. C'est sourire, qui rend heureux. [- M. Ibrahim, when I say a smile is a rich people thing, I mean it's a happy people thing. - Well, that's where you're wrong. Smiling is what makes you happy.]

It's smiling that makes you happy.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies

Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but moving, growing, working together; even when there is harmony or conflict, joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves. There is only one proof for the presence of love: the depth of the relationship, and the aliveness and strength in each person concerned; this is the fruit by which love is recognized.

People are confused and unsure, they seek answers to guide them to joy, tranquillity, self-knowledge, salvation?but they also demand that it be easy to learn, that it require little or no effort, that results be quickly obtained.

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living

This was one of the pleasures of recovery: you opened the door to the pain and gnawing tedium, but joy came in as well. All of it, all of it, brilliant and clean and true.

Every child breaks a rule or two, of course! But a worrisome trait to notice is if your child violates rules and gets joy and adrenaline from doing so. Future psychopaths can only feel when they do something bad and get away with it. Normal life doesn't provide them with enough serotonin and happiness. So watch out for a child who seems happiest when they have stolen another kid's toy, or deliberately done something you have told them specifically NOT to do!

I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.

Feeling passionate about something is like getting a peak at your soul smiling back at you.

Now, what could be more important than a frivolous romance?

I love acting like I'm in love. It's a very positive thing.

There is no human hope without the promise of ecstasy.