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Quotes About Joy

Time doesn't make a full life. Living your life to the fullest makes it full.
~ Ann Pearlman
You need to add light and joy. After all, isn't Christmas with its lights, and Hanukkah with its candle flames, about adding illumination to this dark time of year? We need to remind ourselves that the sun will eventually push the night to more reasonable margins. The Christmas cookie club, if it's anything, is a reminder of delight. And, of course, a reminder that girlfriends help one another to endure the grind and to celebrate the joy.
~ Ann Pearlman
O Emily! these are moments, in which joy and grief struggle so powerfully for pre-eminence, that the heart can scarcely support the contest!
~ Ann Radcliffe
The sympathy expressed in the tone of his voice and manner, proved that his happiness, on this occasion, almost equalled her own.
~ Ann Radcliffe
Though splendour may grace happiness, virtue only can bestow it.
~ Ann Radcliffe
But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,--- O! its quite beyond what you can understand.
~ Ann Radcliffe
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.
~ Ann Radcliffe
Even though many of us are working very hard at it, we rarely, if ever, experience the joy and peace that are promised in the Bible. So what's the problem? Perhaps we are still holding the reins of our lives too tightly, afraid to surrender ourselves to God's Spirit.
~ Ann Spangler
When you start to make a habit of blessing God, you will discover that daily life can begin to feel like Christmas morning. As your prayer life becomes saturated with kavanah, that deep awareness of God's presence and his overwhelming love, you may feel as though you are wading knee-deep through shards of wrapping paper and mountains of bows to enjoy a pile of shiny new gifts.
~ Ann Spangler
The most important thing to wear is a smile.
~ Ann Taylor
you are many years late; how happy I am to see you
~ Anna Akhmatova
Like a white stone at the bottom of the well, One memory lies in me. I cannot and I do not want to struggle, It is both joy and suffering. I think that anyone who looks into my Eyes will all at once see him. More sad and pensive he'll become That heard the story of this suffering. I know that the gods had turned People to objects, without killing mind, That divine sadness lived eternally. You're turned into my memory, I find.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Lydia finally found it in herself to forgive her mother for seizing what small joy she could, whatever the consequences. Love, it seemed, had its own imperatives.
~ Anna Campbell
Philippa Hume, my dearest wife, I love you with every beat of my heart and every breath I take." To her astonishment, his deep voice cracked with emotion. He sucked in an unsteady breath before he continued. "And to hear that you're having my baby makes me the happiest man since time began. I bless the day you came into my life and I thank whatever grace allowed me to make you mine. You're the center of my life and I worship the ground you walk on.
~ Anna Campbell
The creature laughed with a sound like water splashing softly on pebbles.
~ Anna Elizabeth Bennett
Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.
~ Anna Fellows Johnston
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned.
~ Anna Freud
What surprises me about living here is that, no matter how much is taken out, this linoleum palace continues to contain all the necessities for life, at the same time as it refuses to admit a single thing, either accidentally or arranged, of beauty or joy. In this, I think, it is much like East Germany itself.
~ Anna Funder
Mais c'est magnifique de souffrir quand on est en bonne santé. C'est un privilège ! Il n'ya que les morts qui ne souffrent plus ! Réjouis-toi, ma belle ! Va, cours, vole, espère, plante-toi, saigne ou festoie, mais vis ! Vis un peu !
~ Anna Gavalda
Laisse donc les torchons et les serviettes dans le même tiroir, la vie est plus amusante quand il y a un peu de bordel...
~ Anna Gavalda
But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You... because you have such a gift for life. You grab hold of it with both hands. You move, you dance, you know how to make the rain and the sunshine in a home. You have this incredible gift for making people around you happy. You're so at ease, so at ease on this little planet...
~ Anna Gavalda
Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.
~ Anna Gavalda
Clic Clac. Plus personne ne bouge. Moment suspendu. Bonheur.
~ Anna Gavalda
People who don't get excited about receiving gifts are tired of life.
~ Anna Maxted