Quotes About Joy

Killing for sport is the perfect type of that pure evil for which metaphysicians have sometimes sought. Most wicked deeds are done because the doer proposes some good to himself ... [but] the killer for sport has no such comprehensible motive. He prefers death to life, darkness to light. He gets nothing except the satisfaction of saying, Something that wanted to live is dead. There is that much less vitality, consciousness, and, perhaps, joy in the universe. I am the Spirit that Denies.

Thomas Aquinas writes: "There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.

We have inherited God's sense of satisfaction and joy in accomplishing things through relationships. After

there are lines upon my face, from a lifetime of smiles

I myself have never enjoyed anything more than writing. I love to live in that world.

The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.

All for that welcome home dance, The most favorite of all-- when everyone finds their way back together to dance, eat and celebrate. And tell story after story of how they fought and played in the story wheel and how no one was ever really lost at all.

And, Wind, I am still crazy. I know there is something larger than the memory of a dispossessed people. We have seen it.

My children were slick otters of joy in these rough waters of living

They lived and laughed and loved and left

These are the moments for which we live.

Relief is happiness for those who, otherwise, would have no happiness.

Running! If there is any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I cannot think of what it might be.

Laughter too depends upon memory—a memory of previous laughter. Dr.

And I like your laugh, Sabbath; it's inaudible.

is joy in life, a terrible joy. There is joy for the taking if you are not afraid.

How happy she was, how elated!

It is that time he cannot realize—he is still alive. He is laughing and his face is bright-glaring with happiness because he is alive and cannot imagine any time when he will be not-alive for (it is said) no animal can comprehend its own death.

And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.

The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.

It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster. Adele, Henry's Mother

Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will always be in great supply!

Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.

If you are a believer married to an unbeliever I want to tell you that the greatest witness that you can be to them is to try to be the same all the time. Don't let the way they act control you. Dave didn't let my actions control him. He stayed happy, and that just made me madder, because unhappy people just want to make other people unhappy, but it finally broke through to me that he's got a stability and a joy and a peace that I did not have.