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Quotes About Joy

Aside from dancing, the biggest and proudest moment of my whole entire life was when my son Mark was born.
~ Shirley Ballas
That's my proudest accomplishment: that I don't feel like a grown-up.
~ Dawn Steel
That's not part of me that I have to do something dark to prove to people that I'm an actor. The fuel for me is the laugh. Maybe later I'll want to show people the darker side... But right now, I'm having too much fan making people laugh. And it really makes me feel good.
~ Jerry Trainor
Getting pregnant proved to be a hell of a shock but it's really exciting.
~ Dervla Kirwan
If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.
~ Zadie Smith
Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!
~ Euripides
Isn't it delightful to forget how old we are?
~ Euripides
In childbirth grief begins.
~ Euripides
I wish you joy. To spend life's fleeting days mid joy that never meets an evil hour is to be blessed beyond compare.
~ Euripides
The pain is good, as long as you're not laughing.
~ Euripides
But my pain's a fair price, to take away your smile.
~ Euripides
If women didn't exist, human life would be rid of all its miseries.
~ Euripides
the transcendent gladness of grapes and wine so beneficial to body, soul and psyche's interior design.
~ Euripides
Notes of joy blend with the tearful dirge When Apollo's voice rings forth, when with his golden plectrum He rouses rich music from his lute. I too will chant the praise Of one who has entered the night of the world below
~ Euripides
LEADER. And who hath said that Love shall bring   More joy to man than fear and strife? I knew his perils from of old, I know them now, when I behold   The bitter faring of my King, Whose love is taken, and his life   Left evermore an empty thing.
~ Euripides
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
~ Euripides
To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected.
~ Eva Ibbotson
Happiness can be frightening when one is not accustomed to the sensation.
~ Eva Rice
It was Christmas morning, and all was right with the world.
~ Evan Hunter
Mickey represented an honest product, a pure spirit and a cheerful heart, a sort of staggeringly simple pleasure in the exercise of the imagination.
~ Eve Zibart
Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Yes, I was determined to have a happy Christmas' 'Did you?' 'I think so. I don't remember it much, and that's always a good sign, isn't it?
~ Evelyn Waugh
that kernel of gaiety that never breaks.
~ Evelyn Waugh
But the wood has endured. In splinters and shavings, gorgeously encased, it has traveled the world over and found a joyous welcome among every race. For it states a fact. Hounds are checked, hunting wild. A horn calls clear through the covert. Helena casts them back on the scent. Above all the babble of her age and ours, she makes one blunt assertion. And there alone lies Hope.
~ Evelyn Waugh