Quotes About Joy

Very little is needed to make a happy life, he said.

When a baby falls asleep in your arms you are absolved. The purest creature alive has chosen you. There's nothing else.

Delight seems insubstantial; happiness feels more grounded; ecstasy is what I shoot for; satisfaction is hardest to attain.

The zest of the work is maintained by something better than the mere accumulation of money.

As he put it, "I know that in my own case I have been greatly helped by the confidence imposed in me since early boyhood."22 Of course, this boyhood responsibility took its toll on John D., who experienced little of the spontaneous joy or levity of youth.

He laughed a great deal and enjoyed the speculation he caused.

I went home in great delight.

The lift of her heart she'd felt on the outcrop she now felt again, and it wasn't just love. She'd felt love before, known its depths when her mother died. This was something rarer. Happiness, Laurel thought, that must be what this is.

Life is one grand sweet song so start the music

They had that special grace, that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy. on Challenger disaster

Frederick Buechner said, "The place God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."7

Ya no quiero pensar más en vivir para mí misma, ya no tengo el deseo ni la facultad para ello, ya no me siento para nada viva ni joven, ya no sé qué es la alegría ni el placer.

Felicidad es minimalista. Es sencilla y desnuda. Es una casi nada que lo es todo.

Os deseo un año de salud, de satisfacciones, de buen trabajo, un año durante el cual tengáis cada día el gusto de vivir, sin esperar que los días que hayan tenido que pasar para encontrar su satisfacción y sin tener necesidad de poner esperanzas de felicidad en los días que hayan de venir.

Qui plus est, le bonheur est minimaliste. Il est simple et dépouillé. C'est un presque rien qui fait tout.

Además, la #Felicidad es minimalista. Es sencilla y desnuda.

la vida es tan tenaz, tan bella, tan poderosa, que incluso desde los primeros momentos de la pena te permite gozar de instantes de alegría:

All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.

Rosamunde Pilcher

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

Her family... Love and involvement brought joy, but as well could become a hideously heavy millstone slung about one's neck. And the worst was that she felt useless because there was not a mortal thing she could do to help resolve their problems.

And she [Joanna Crayshaw] had discovered that if you were safe and happy and loved, it became easy to laugh at yourself. ['A Place Like Home']

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

We do not stop playing because we are old We are old because we stop playing.