Quotes About Joy

A volte la gioia fa un effetto strano, ti opprime quasi come il dolore.

Up to then, the joy of fulfilling, perhaps over-fulfilling, their duty had kept them in a state of exultation. Such a state is close to enthusiasm and that makes one insensible to the things of this earth. But their enthusiasm died down, and they had had gradually to return from the land of dreams to the world of reality.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

The best way to die is when you're living.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

The only way to fight evil is with joy

I was so unaccustomed to such emotions it took some time before I realized I was happy.

It was a moment made of glass, this happiness; it was the easiest thing in the world to break. Every minute was a world, every hour a universe.

That's still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident.

To be young and alive was a glorious thing. When you possessed it, you were likely unable to fully comprehend that it was a marvel and a gift, no matter your circumstances.

Fall in love whenever you can.

We will have to pay a price for being happy?""Everyone does. That's what it means to be alive.

Vamos ter que pagar um preço por sermos felizes? – Todo mundo paga. É isso que significa estar vivo.

As the summer passed, I began to feel free. I had time to myself, and I enjoyed watching over the children. I felt a sort of joy I'd never felt before. I was so unaccustomed to such emotions it took some time before I realized I was happy.

felt a sort of joy I'd never felt before. I was so unaccustomed to such emotions it took some time before I realized I was happy.

Being happy," Uncle Tommy liked to say, "takes a great deal of work." He said he had no time for anything else.

All joy was thin ice to Sister Lucy.

What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood—that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements. It could be brimful of occupations which did not weary you to the bone.

Half my concern in love became how to disguise love, to make it harmless and merry.

The thing is to be happy, he said. No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, and you're just there, going along easy in the world.

She sat with that chewed-in yet absentminded smile on her face as if she'd been given a present she knew she would like, even if she hadn't got the wrapping off it yet.

Demasiada felicidad

I wish you all a long and happy life