Quotes About Joy

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

L'innocence, le plus souvent, est un bonheur et non pas une vertu.

The rainbow comes and goes. Enjoy it while it lasts. Don't be surprised by its departure, and rejoice when it returns.

Résister « Se priver du bonheur de l'union sacrée » « Il court-circuite l'enthousiasme » Le Dieu et l'idole Spinoza, philosophe du plaisir et de la joie Du monisme au dualisme Refus du matérialisme et du Dieu-Objet Refus du fatalisme « L'existence n'est pas Dieu » Désespoir ou idolâtrie ? Simone Weil

Ce que j'appelle désespoir, philosophiquement, est très proche de ce que Freud, à sa façon et d'un autre point de vue, appelle le travail de deuil. Ce n'est pas du tout un travail de la tristesse ! Le but du deuil, c'est la joie.

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Nedaug rasime toki?, kurie gyvenime nepažino laim?s, bet dar mažiau toki?, kurie sugeb?jo j? išsaugoti.

La rumba, la rumba me llama, báilala tú como yo.

Voittamisen riemu on pienempi kuin häviämisen tuska, eikä hyvä tunne kestä yhtä kauaa kuin paha, ei läheskään.

One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

joy was something she willed herself to show us, something she raised from deep inside herself as a promise for what could be. Now her life seemed to have opened up into it as if it had been waiting for her. (215)

He tried to remember her ever being this way before. In her voice--almost overexuberant--was not simply holiday cheer but joyous relief, like some terminally ill patient who's just been told she's not sick anymore.

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

I'm an un-healable positive optimist.

Everyone wants a world without sadness, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

The joy of a return is worth the price one pays at the moment of departure.

Rideva volentieri, in un modo meravigliosamente terreno, luminoso.

That's how I get through," Jude said. "Focus on what's in front of me and find the joy in it.