Quotes About Joy

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Die meisten Menschen sind so glücklich, wie sie sein wollen.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Las personas son tan felices como transforman sus mentes para serlo (Abraham Lincoln)

It is not the years in your life that count, it is the life in your years.

music has always been a celebration of the ineradicability of life.

Accepting the eventual certainty of defeat in turn liberates you to take real joy in any small victory, that one good kick.

Family life is by its nature cocooned, and expatriate family life doubly so. We had many friends and a few intimate ones, but it is in the nature of family rhythm—up too early, asleep too soon—to place you on a margin, and to the essential joy—just the three of us!—was added the essential loneliness, just the three of us.

we see life as deeply in our pleasures as in our pains.

So I sang the first Italian song that came into my head, which turned out to be "Volare." I'm sure I need not mention at this point that I am a rock star, and it sounded fantastic. J.Lo

The agreeable passions of love and joy can satisfy and support the heart without any auxiliary pleasure. The bitter and painful emotions of grief and resentment more strongly require the healing consolation of sympathy.

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive.

When you have His joy in your heart, it doesn't necessarily mean your pain or hurt will be taken away. It means you'll be able to bear it.

A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones" (Prov. 17:22).

I have been a joy to live with all spring: Upbeat, warm and tender, uncomplicated, and loving. I am no trouble at all. You could press me into dough and make sugar cookies out of me, I've been so sweet.

I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain. --Valentine, while in Italy (pg 267)

When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

Tonight, I am a Perfect Girl, because I had a perfect night. And it ended with three perfect kisses. Three. What a lucky number.

You cannot have the joy of Easter without the agony of Good Friday

Who's the artist? My favorite. She pauses. Unknown. Edydie sits cross-legged on the couch. There is something so pure about an artist creating something for the sheer joy of it, then sharing it with people and claiming no credit. To me that's the height of romance.

There's nothing sad about loving someone so much that nothing makes sense without him. It's the definition of joy.

Elizabeth chuckled. Sometimes seeing a kid suffer the indignity of having to work gave parents a secret joy.