Quotes About Joy

One can't stay sad for long in such an interesting world, can one?

Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it." ? L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

We _are_ rich,' said Anne staunchly. 'Why, we have sixteen years to our credit, and we are as happy as queens and we've all got imaginations, more or less. Look at that sea, girls - all silver and shallow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.

What a splendid day! Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one.

I just want to drink the day's loveliness in . . . I feel as if she were holding it out to my lips like a cup of airy wine and I'll take a sip at every step.

How terrible it must be not to see and feel beauty.... I'm so glad I can find happiness in all lovely little things... It seems to me that every time I look out of a window the world gives me a gift.

Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life; there were to be future summers for the little stone house; meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history.

We miss so much out of life if we do not love. The more we love the richer life is.

If I had my way I'd shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne," said Gilbert

Life may be a vale of tears, all right, but there are some folks who enjoy weeping, I reckon.

There the rose of joy bloomed immortal by dale and stream; clouds never darkened the sunny sky; sweet bells never jangled out of tune; and kindred spirits abounded.

So bright and golden and fair, so free fro shadow and so lavish of blossom.

We'll make friends with the wind and sky and sun, and bring home spring in our hearts.

The possibilities of making new friends help to make life very fascinating

Life is rich and full here... everywhere... if we can only learn how to open our whole hearts to its richness and fullness.

It's lovely to be going home and know it's home. I love green gables already, and I've never loved any place before. Oh, Marilla, I'm so happy.

And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy, assured Anne.

If I had my way I'd shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne, said Gilbert in the tone that meant danger ahead. Then

She wondered if old dreams could haunt rooms - if, when one left forever the room where she had joyed and suffered and laughed and wept, something of her, intangible and invisible, yet nonetheless real, did not remain behind like a voiceful memory.

I think the nicest thing about days is their unexpectedness. It's jolly to wake up like this on a golden-fine morning and day-dream for ten minutes before I get up, imagining heaps of splendid things that might happen.