Quotes About Joy

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.

To distort our faces with joy, or wail and weep with sorrow, or collapse in agony, or wallow in sentimentality – wasn't an inviolable human trait but something we can lose simply by leading dull and dreary lives. 'A rich emotional life,' she'd written, 'is a privilege reserved only for the daring few'.

I don't really know how to say it, but if you're really honestly having fun, you're not supposed to think and look for things right in the middle of it, am I right?

I am alone, as I have always been; abandoned not by men, that would not pain me, but by the happy spirits of joy who in countless hosts encircled me, who met everywhere with their kind, pointed everywhere to an opportunity.

I choose one thing: always to have the laughter on my side.

The person whose joy is dependant upon certain conditions is not himself joyful; his joy, after all, is that of the conditions and is conditional upon them.

A man's life is wasted when he lives on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows, that he never becomes decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, that is, he never is aware in the deepest sense that there is a God.

After all, it is the best time of one's life, the first period of falling in love, when with every meeting, every glance, one brings home something new to rejoice over.

De esta manera el cristianismo tiene siempre consuelo, y su consuelo se distingue de todo consuelo humano en que este siempre es consciente de ser únicamente una compensación por la pérdida de la alegría: el consuelo cristiano es la alegría.

vivir así, alegre y feliz, instante tras instante, siempre en virtud del absurdo; ver constantemente pender la espada sobre la cabeza de la persona amada, y sin embargo no encontrar reposo en el dolor de la resignación sino gozo en virtud del absurdo. Quien es capaz de obrar así es grande de verdad, un hombre sin par (…)

I sacrifice myself for my profession, my wife, my children, or, more properly expressed, I do not sacrifice myself for them, but I find in them my satisfaction and joy.

By my own strength I am able to give up the princess, and I shall not become a grumbler, but shall find joy and repose in my pain ; but by my own strength I am not able to get her again, for I am employing all my strength to be resigned. But by faith, says that marvellous knight, by faith I shall get her in virtue of the absurd.

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring

Grandchildren give most of the joys of parenthood and only a tenth the labor and pain.

Children do make life more interesting, he thought.

The story never ends, but our part in the tale does, for a while, and I'm in the mood for some happy-ever-aftering! We earned it, as the Gods themselves know!

And I take with joy whatever Now besets me, pain or fear, And with a strong will I sever All the ties which bind me here.

The girls gasp. Billie grins proudly.

the nicest pony Billie has ever

Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream.

The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

Hey you, long face,' shouted an elderly gent who must have been at least seventy years old, but who was dancing through the flooded, rainy streets, waving a rolled umbrella like a sword. 'Don't you sing those Tragedy Songs round here.

Life has vanquished death and even the furniture celebrates.