Quotes About Joy

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

My kids are my priority. Everything else is just sugar on top!

The best time of my life was living at my mum and dad's and watching things on television like 'Saturday Night at the London Palladium with Max Bygraves.' We used to have bread, put butter on it with sugar and put it under the grill. That was our treat.

If we are to make life into a pleasure rather than a struggle, then I would suggest that we have to start with our own mental attitudes.

I have tried a lot... to be perfect all the time. It doesn't suit me. It doesn't make me happy and I do things that make me happy.

I love those kids on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.' I remember when they were little they looked like they were having so much fun just being kids. And that's how I was growing up and how I try to be.

I've owned a lot of dogs in my life - Marcela, Rusty, Petey Pup, Precious, Rosy and Ava. Each were in love with life's simple pleasures, but being people in dog suits, as they seem to be, they each had a defined personality!

I like girly, colorful bathing suits.

Married life suits me.

Being parents suits us. Having kids has been the best thing for both of us.

I think comedy suits me best.

I like to laugh and have a good time rather than brood and be sullen.

You can have parties without spending enormous sums of money.

I absolutely love-love-love the summer. I love when it's hot outside.

So, when I was eight or nine my mom's friend gave her a big purple bag full of cassettes and I found Seals and Crofts' 'Summer Breeze'... When I found it I stopped going through the bag because I was like, well, I'm not going to find anything better than this. I just thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard.

Nothing says summer to me more than Notting Hill Carnival.

Summer is very precious.