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Quotes About Joy

For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
the first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun. . .
~ Laurie R. King
felt my face relax into a smile of distinct pleasure—nay, call it by name: pure joy. For of all the rules of beekeeping, Rule Three is prime: Never, ever, cease to feel wonder.
~ Laurie R. King
Research is a joy, especially when one is not burdened with an excessive reverence for the truth.
~ Lawrence Block
I heard the pitter patter of little old feet.
~ Lawrence Block
The answer is, be positive in spite of what you have or what's happening. That's how to be happy.
~ Lawrence Crane
To become desireless, to not want anything external to ourselves, means we rest in ourselves, whole, joyous and happy. In this state, our true nature is constant love, unending love, giving love.
~ Lawrence Crane
El dolor mismo es el único elemento de la memoria; porque el placer termina en sí mismo
~ Lawrence Durrell
Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing... Oh my God! Ooh... Wow... You can see colors through music. Anything!
~ Nina Simone
Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be sad about what you don't have, you will not be happy about what you do have.
~ Leo Tolstoy
When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don't feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
~ Lily Tomlin
I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
~ Sara Teasdale
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.
~ Carl Jung
As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?
~ Anne Frank
I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.
~ Luther Vandross
When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so bad.
~ Oscar Hammerstein II
Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.
~ Nancy Mitford
The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.
~ Steve Martin
I cried at first, and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy.
~ Frances Noyes Hart
Oh, I wouldn't say Love always makes you happy. Sometimes it makes you incredibly sad.
~ Rick Riordan
You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.
~ Louis Sachar
It's hard to be sad when you're laughing, so I enjoy making people happy.
~ Tim Conway
Kittens will make your sad go away
~ David Wong