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Quotes About Joy

joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Happiness is egotistical.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I'm not proud, but I'm happy, and I think happiness makes a man even blinder than pride.
~ Alexandre Dumas
A man is always in a hurry to be happy.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Happiness even makes the wicked good.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Celui-la seul qui a eprouve l'extreme infortune est apte a ressentir l'extreme felicite. Il faut avoir voulu mourir pour savoir combien el est bon de vivre.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Sólo el que ha experimentado el colmo del infortunio puede sentir la felicidad suprema
~ Alexandre Dumas
I do not often laugh, sir," answered the unknown. "As you may yourself discover by the expression of my continence. But yet I mean to preserve the right of laughing when I please.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Happiness is truly priceless. It costs you nothing.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Fears and worries originate in the mind. Love and joy originate from the soul.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Puedes encontrar toda la gama de emociones humanas a lo largo de los 150 salmos. Júbilo, frustración, desaliento, culpa, perdón, gozo, gratitud, el trato con los enemigos, contentamiento, descontento —y todo lo demás que puedas estar pensando ahora—: todo se encuentran en el libro de los Salmos.
~ Donald S. Whitney
Joy does not come to you if you are spiritually passive; rather, joy is cultivated, but joy is cultivated by things you do.
~ Donald S. Whitney
Find joy in God and you will find joy in doing the work of God.
~ Donald S. Whitney
And if it can't be fun, what's the point?
~ Donald Trump
It is joy to be hidden, but disaster not to be found.
~ Donald W. Winnicott
It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found.
~ Donald Winnicott
It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.
~ Donald Woods Winnicott
It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.
~ Donella H. Meadows
sometimes God gives us things we don't need. And the best of the gifts He gives us is someone to share all the silly and grand, frivolous and spectacular—" Betty nodded solemnly. "—sad and heartbreaking—" Bonnie's grip tightened on Cora's fingers. "—joyous and exquisite moments of our lives.
~ Donita K. Paul
Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.
~ Donna Brazile
Laughter and love make life worth living!
~ Donna J. Schmidt
And maybe you can tell me all about the hot Aussie you spent the afternoon with." She shook her hand next to her chest. "I heard he's pretty hubba-hubba." You have no idea , Kerry thought, and in the face of Maddy's charming, infectious smile, couldn't squelch her own. "It was a passable way to spend an afternoon." Maddy hooted a laugh. "I'll bet.
~ Donna Kauffman
Life Warriors. They would pay tribute to their loved ones rather than mourn them, by being bringers of light, of positive thinking, the spreaders of joy. Ch. 1, pg. 18, Lavender Blue by Donna Kauffman
~ Donna Kauffman