Quotes About Joy

It's harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again for an hour. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I want to be picked or rocked to sleep in someone's arms, and carried up to be just one more time. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Sweet are the thoughts that favour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown... Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss... Obscurèd life sets down a type of bliss, A mind content both crown and kingdom is.

The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul -- breaking the mental manacles -- getting the brain out of bondage -- giving courage to thought -- filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.

Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so.

If he was, in fact, God, he knew there was no such thing as death. He knew that what we called death was but the eternal opening of the golden gates of everlasting joy; and it took no heroism to face a death that was eternal life.

Happy birthday, this isn't your real present, you'll get that later. (Not flowers) Love Strike x

Birthdays in Lucy's world were always celebrated, never forgotten: there must be cake and candles and cards and presents; time must be marked, order preserved, traditions upheld.

where there's no capacity for joy, there's no capacity for goodness.

She could hear Sarah's laugh from the kitchen, even over Coldplay and Rihanna, who were now belting out 'Princess of China' from Matthew's iPod.

Many happy returns, love Robin x

We used to laugh till we cried. I've never laughed like that since.

The memory of him telling her she was his best friend caused a little spurt of happiness every time she returned to it . . .

One t'ing life's taught me: where there's no capacity for joy, there's no capacity for goodness,

Then there was survival. There was going on, as she had always gone on, without much joy, against her will, against her instincts, without the stomach for it, but on and on and on, without relief, without release, without a hand to reach out and touch her heart. Without kindness or comfort. But on. Forced into such poverty, imprisoned in such despair, there was only one thing she was sure she could do. She could survive.

Waktu untuk berbahagia itu sekarang, Tempat untuk berbahagia itu di sini, Cara untuk berbahagia ialah dengan membuat orang lain berbahagia.

Religion has been the enemy of social order, because it directs the attention of man to another world. Religion teaches its votaries to sacrifice this world for the sake of that other. The effect is to weaken the ties that hold families and States together. Of what consequence is anything in this world compared with eternal joy?

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion." (Truvey Jones)

then we went skinny dippin' and did things that frighten the fish... Character, Shelby Eatonton, from the movie, Steel Magnolias.

You won't know true happiness ... till you give up your heart's desire.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.