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Quotes About Joy

Annemarie's silvery blond hair flew behind her
~ Lois Lowry
he understood the joy of being an individual, special and unique and proud.
~ Lois Lowry
Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Gardens were meant to be seen, smelled, walked through, grubbed in. A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
So, Lord Auditor Coz. Did you find some fun? Do I look cheerful? More like manic. It's a joy, Ivan, an absolute joy. The ImpSec internal Security system is lying to me.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Fear is easy.  Joy is hard, said Des. Mm.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Don't let fear swallow all your happiness. Don't forget to take joy. Dag gulped. Both of their grounds were nearly closed. It was Arkady's voice alone that hinted how hard-bought this bit of wisdom might've been, yet the words had been nearly toneless.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Every day was a gift, each year a miracle. She was living her whole life as a smash-and-grab, and he heartily approved.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
But if you want Arra to give you real joy, you have to give it to her first.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
What is love but delight in another human being? He delights me daily.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Don't let fear swallow all your happiness. Don't forget to take joy.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
farmer barn dances, although the
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Joy is a mark of Them, you see.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Tej. Will you stay with me for the rest of my life?" At the little jump of the laugh in her chest, his encircling arm tightened, heartened and heartening. He'd intended her to laugh, she guessed. Ivan Xav was good at that, it occurred to her. Making light in dark places.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.
~ Lois Wyse
She's my sunshine
~ Lora Leigh
As I wish for you dreams that will soothe your soul, dreams that will whisper of secrets untold. I wish for you dreams that will capture your life, dreams so spectacular and bright you can know no strife. I wish for you my child, a dream as brilliant as sunrise, and warm as it's gentle rays. But most of all precious one, I dream for you, of many peaceful days.
~ Lora Leigh
You are letting this man steal your soul and it should not be his to own, unless he gives his in return. As long as you have that part of you, you will always have the will to ensure that he never breaks you, or breaks the joy you find with your child.
~ Lora Leigh
All sound arises out of Silence and dissolves into Silence. All thought arises out of Silence and dissolves into Silence. The universe arises out of Silence and dissolves into Silence. Suffering arises out of Silence and dissolves into Silence. The unbounded spaciousness of Silence, filled with the clear light of Awareness, dissolves the roots of pain and sorrow. Take refuge in Silence and know unshakable joy
~ Lord Dunsany
Not everything's funny, Mother. No, said Leola, so I guess when you can laugh,, it's all the sweeter.
~ Lorna Landvik
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality
~ Lorraine Hansberry
She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.
~ Lorrie Moore
In a life where there is only the bearable and the unbearable, a sigh of relief is an ecstasy.
~ Lorrie Moore
What a wonderful world.
~ Louis Armstrong