Quotes About Joy

In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.

Kad divi cilv?ki m?l viens otru, kad vi?i ir laim?gi un jautri un viens vai abi rada kaut ko ?sti labu, vi?i pievelk cilv?kus, tieši t?pat k? spoža b?ka nakt? pievelk g?jputnus.

Labi b?tu, ja var?tu nopirkt k?du drusci?u laimes. Ja b?tu k?da vieta, kur to p?rdod.

goal of spirituality is not to extract from you all desire and passion. The call of Jesus is the exact opposite—delight

Chiar în vârtejul relelelor daÈ›i sufletelor voastre veselia cea de toate zilele, c?ci pentru morÈ›i belÈ™ugul aurului nu mai are preÈ›.

The era of pleasure has arrived.

Expect nothing, and you will enjoy everything!

the actual joy of acting lies in the absence of personality.

Go for the hum.

The Parade is not diplomacy," Chris pointed out. "It's celebration.

He loved happiness like I love tea.

Up home we loved a good storm coming, we'd fly outdoors and run up and down to meet it," her mother used to say. "We children would run as fast as we could go along the top of that mountain when the wind was blowing, holding our arms right open. The wilder it blew the better we liked it.

But happiness, Albert knew, is something that appears to you suddenly, that is meant for you, a thing which you reach for and pick up and hide at your breast, a shiny thing that reminds you of something alive and leaping.

It's our turn! she'd thought exultantly. And we're going to live forever.

I can't think I had much of a sense of humor as long as I remained the only child. When my brother Edward came along we both became comics, making each other laugh.

But here I am, and here I'll stay. I want the world to know I'm happy.

My boy! It's really true, you really love hashed brown potatoes? You make me so happy. JACK [without conviction]: Yes, I like them, I adore them!

Vivons notre vie, soyons heureux. Nous avons le devoir d'être heureux.

Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time.

Only the past when you were happy is real.

There are things you can describe in life and things you just can't. There are dangers and adventures, miseries and fear that you can tell about… well, then there's hope and joy and love – and those are beyond the power of words to describe.

I have no interest in declaring how people should organize their personal lives. Jesus said, "Judge not,"26 and I take that to heart: if you are peering into another person's soul, you are looking in the wrong direction. But after a long life, I can report anecdotally that all the most joyful people I have ever met were married, and all the happiest marriages I have ever seen were arranged, in some sense, on the Ephesian principles.

For years, maybe most of my life, I had languished in that typical young intellectual's delusion that gloom and despair are the romantic lot of the brilliant and the wise. But now I saw: it wasn't so. Why should it be? What sort of wisdom has no joy in it? What good is wisdom without joy? ... Everything useful that can be done in the world can be done in joy.

The hungry can't eat your tears. The poor can't spend them. They're no comfort to the afflicted and they don't bring the wicked to justice. Everything useful that can be done in the world can be done in joy.