Quotes About Joy

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

By the next autumn she was gay again, gay as ever.

And, after all, an obsolete list. She was in love now, set for the eternal romance that was to be the synthesis of all romance, yet sad for these man and these moonlights and for the 'thrills' she had had – and the kisses. The past – her past, oh, what a joy! She had been exuberantly happy.

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

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy--one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

My courage is faith—faith in the eternal resilience of me—that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity

J'avais chaque soir le même coup au cÅ"ur. Des ombres se pressaient l'une contre l'autre au fond des voitures à l'arrêt, et des voix chantaient, et des rires saluaient de mystérieuses plaisanteries, et des points rouges de cigarettes soulignaient des gestes inexplicables. Je m'imaginais faire partie de ces gens-là, courant vers les mêmes plaisirs, partageant leur gaieté secrète, et je leur souhaitais d'être heureux.

Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence.

They were walking through the March twilight where it was as warm as June, and the joy of youth filled his soul so that he felt he must speak. 'I think,' he said and his voice trembled, 'that if I lost faith in you I'd lose faith in God.' She looked at him with such a started face that he asked her the matter. 'Nothing,' she said slowly, 'only this: five men have said that to me before, and it frightens me.

He had passed visibly through two states and was entering upon a third. After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence. He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an over-wound clock.

No child ever receives a box of colored crayons and says, "What's the point? I can't draw." Nor does she reject a jar of modeling dough because sculpture is too complicated. If you give him a guitar, he gets sounds out of it without fuss. If you ask her to sing, she doesn't refuse to because she doesn't know the words or because she hasn't got a perfect voice: she simply takes a breath, opens her mouth and belts it out!

If there is such a thing as complete happiness, it is knowing that you are in the right place.

Idgie smiled back at her and looked up into the clear blue sky that reflected in her eyes and she was as happy as anybody who is in love in the summertime can be.

Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.

She felt her heart open and fill with the pure wonder of being alive and making it through.

Mrs. Threadgoode pulled something out of the Cracker Jack box and all of a sudden her eyes lit up. "Oh Evelyn, look! Here's my prize. It's a little miniature chicken… just what I like!" and she held it out for her friend to see.

They also learned that the very best way to start a marriage was with a good laugh.

Idgie le sorrise e guardò il cielo azzurro che si rifletteva nei suoi occhi. Si sentiva felice come si può essere soltanto quando ci si innamora in tempo d'estate.

You cain't dwell on sadness, oh, it'll make you sick faster than anything in this world.

The Joy of a Loving God.

He assured them, with a great and mighty authority, that his God was not a vengeful God, but one of goodness…love…forgiveness…and joy.

They also learned that the very best way to start a marriage was with a good laugh. Particularly when the children start coming.