Quotes About Joy

Let the Piper come and welcome, he cried, waving his hand. I'LL follow him gladly round and round the world.

Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them

un sourire ou un mot gentil, cette personne le recevait comme un rayon de soleil et, ne serait-ce qu'un instant, voyait sa vie illuminée d'espoir, de bonheur et d'optimisme.

Quizá no consigas las cosas en sí mismas, pero nada puede arrebatarte el placer de esperarlas con ilusión.

Anne's horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen's; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road!

her. But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

One couldn't be afraid or bitter where love was—and love was everywhere.

Anne laughed -- then shivered. I can never forget the night I thought you were dying, Gilbert. Oh, I knew -- I KNEW then -- and I thought it was too late. But it wasn't, sweetheart. Oh, Anne, this makes up for everything, doesn't it? Let's resolve to keep this day sacred to perfect beauty all our lives for the gift it has given us. It's the birthday of our happiness, said Anne softly.

Miss Cordelia thought she had never seen anybody so much like an incarnate smile before. Smiles of all kinds seemed literally to riot over his ruddy face and in and out of his eyes and around the corners of his mouth.

Oh, of course he's good, agreed Anne. But he doesn't seem to get any comfort out of it. If I could be good I'd dance and sing all day because I was glad of it.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

What a family! Anne repeated exultantly.

It is twenty-four years since I was a bride at old Green Gables—the happiest bride that ever was—and the wedding-veil of a happy bride brings good luck

Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence.

In order to compete with sin's appeal, holy desire, the longing to live a Christlike life that displays the relational beauty of Christ to others, must be rooted in faith. And that faith exists only when it is lodged in the certainty that soon it will give way to an incomparable experience of joy that will forever destroy the appeal of sin.

When you can't figure Me out, you will give up the illusion of predictability and control and discover the joy and freedom of hope.

You're coming to Him not to get Him to enter your world and change things to make you happy and give your life meaning and provide you with the blessings you want. You're now entering His world wanting to bring Him glory, to become a source of joy to your Papa, willing to endure whatever suffering is required to make that happen.

Everything you were designed to experience and enjoy is found in God. Knowing God is your life and your highest joy. You either believe that or you don't. Believe it and you will experience and enjoy life, real life, eventually. Guaranteed. Disbelieve it and, at best, you will experience counterfeit life and enjoy it only for a season.

Deets slapped his leg and laughed, the thought was so funny. When the rest of the outfit finally wondered down from the house they found the two of them grinning back and forth at one another. Look at 'em, Augustus said. You'd think they just discovered teeth.

I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.

Best to help such boys have their moment of fun, before life's torments snatched them.

It's happiness to see you.

The bad things that had happened to her had not killed her. They had not even killed the laughter in her.