Quotes About Joy

For in the death of the ego is freedom, peace, serenity, joy.

To acquire happiness you don't have to do anything, because happiness cannot be acquired. Does anybody know why? Because we have it already.

It reminds me of the Irish prisoner who dug a tunnel under the prison wall and managed to escape. He comes out right in the middle of a school playground where little children are playing. Of course, when he emerges from the tunnel he can't restrain himself anymore and begins to jump up and down, crying, "I'm free, I'm free, I'm free! A little girl there looks at him scornfully and says, "That's nothing. I'm four.

Y cuando tengas que pasar a la siguiente situación, persona u ocupación, lo harás sin ningún tipo de sobrecarga emocional, y experimentarás el gozo de descubrir que en esa siguiente situación, y en la siguiente, y en cualesquiera situaciones sucesivas, brota también la sinfonía, aunque la melodía sea diferente en cada caso.

se esfuma tu capacidad de llevar una existencia alegre, despreocupada y serena. Comprueba cuán verdadero es esto si lo aplicas al apego que has elegido.

Primera verdad: estás aferrado a una falsa creencia, a saber, la de que sin una cosa o persona determinada no puedes ser feliz.

Seventy-six years old," she whispers, "and I can still feel like this? Like a little girl with stars in my eyes?

Live faithfully, fight bravely, and die laughing.

Is she happy? For portions of every day, she is happy.

This is life, he thinks, this is why we live, to play like this on a day when winter is finally releasing its grip.

Marie-Laure smiles, and he laughs a pure, contagious laugh, one she will try to remember all her life, father and daughter turning in circles on the sidewalk in front of their apartment house, laughing together while snow sifts through the branches above.

he laughs a pure, contagious laugh, one she will try to remember all her life

Ignorance was, in the end, and in so many ways, a privilege: to find a shell, to feel it, to understand only on some unspeakable level why it bothered to be so lovely. What joy he found in that, what utter mystery.

To be a parent and take an occasional day off from being a parent is a special kind of joy—a lightening, a sweetness made sweeter by its impermanence.

For portions of every day, she is happy.

Every second of every day has its own magic. - Pg. 163-4

That first peach slithers down his throat like rapture. A sunrise in his mouth.

The girl climbs into the swing and pendulums back and forth, pumping her legs, and watching her opens some valve in Werner's soul. This is life, he thinks, this is why we live, to play like this on a day when winter is finally releasing its grip.

There was joy in that moment—triumph. But an unexpected fear mixed with it; the stone looked like something enchanted, not meant for human eyes. An object that, once looked at, could never be forgotten.

To be a parent and take an occasional day off from being a parent is a special kind of joy—a lightening, a sweetness made sweeter by its impermanence. We buy tickets, find our seats. The

from Marilynne Robinson's Gilead comes back to me. "There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being.

No matter how grouchy you're feeling, You'll find the smile more or less healing. It grows in a wreath All around the front teeth— Thus preserving the face from congealing.

I love life because what more is there?