Quotes About Joy

He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.

He was not at all what is called 'a character'. He was an innocent, affable old man who had somehow preserved his good humor – much more than that, a mysterious and tranquil joy – throughout a life which to all outward observation had been overloaded with misfortune. He had like many another been born in full sunlight and lived to see night fall.

And we would leave the golden candlelight of the dining-room for the starlight outside and sit on the edge of the fountain, cooling our hands in the water and listening drunkenly to its splash and gurgle over the rocks. 'Ought we to be drunk every night?' Sebastian asked one morning. 'Yes, I think so.' ' I think so too.

I'm paralyzed with happiness

Încerc?m s? ne alegem mijloacele È™i apoi lu?m ce putem – È™i ne mai È™i bucur?m.

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

Strange children should smile at each other and say, Let's play.

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.

They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

What do you think of that? It's stopped raining. I'm glad Jay. Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high and my eyes wide--not necessarily any silly smiling. Oh, I've been through hell without a whine quite often--and the female hell is deadlier than the male.

and will I like being called a jazz baby? --You will love it.

Happiness is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

There's so much spring in the air-- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.

Benjamin discovered that he was becoming more and more attracted by the gay side of life. It

he found, as the new century gathered headway, that his thirst for gayety grew stronger.

He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.

I suppose all great happiness is a little sad.

If truth is the end of life happiness is a mode of it, to be cherished in its brief and tremulous moment.

My courage is faith—faith in the eternal resilience of me—that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high, and my eyes wide—not necessarily any silly smiling. Oh, I've been through hell without a whine quite often—and the female hell is deadlier than the male.

She knew what he wanted, and gave it to him; not words, but a smile of warmth and delight — a smile that said, "I'm yours for the asking; I'm won." It was not a smile that undervalued herself, because through its beauty it spoke for both of them, expressed all the potential joy that existed between them.

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.