Quotes About Joy

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.

The night fled away in the joy on their reunion.

I only really watch sport. That's where you see real joy. I don't like watching much else on TV, because it's generally either twisted or sad.

Le bon Dieu l'a fait expres pour vous donner plaisir.

Unable to live a life with joy and freedom in it, some people try to snuff out whatever other expressions of joy and freedom they see around them. If you can't have a soul yourself, some people seem to think, then destroy those who do have souls.

If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.

un conforto scintillante

Life, even one as long as mine, is all about being grateful for the little things.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.

To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before." --

A smile costs about $240.

Szcz??cie dla mnie to brak l?ku.

Les gens tiennent à la vie plus qu'à n'importe quoi, c'est même marrant quand on pense à toutes les belles choses qu'il y a dans le monde.

The pristine vision of childhood restores freshness to even the most time-worn scenes, and in Laura's company I recovered some of the delights I had experienced years ago when my son was a little boy.

L'occhio era cupo, cosa che costituisce sempre una buona base per l'allegria.

J'étais tellement heureux que je voulais mourir parce que le bonheur il faut le saisir pendant qu'il est là.

The ability to laugh is what differentiates man from the beasts, but evidently one cannot always get oneself in a laughing mood.

I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

I know a girl from whose body sunbeams rose to the clouds as if they'd fallen from the sun. Her laugh was like a bangle of bells. "Your hair is wet," I told her one day, "Did you take a bath?" "It is dew!" she laughed, "I've been lying in the grass. All morning long, I lay here waiting for the dawn.

She was a free bird: queen of the world and laughing.

It was a time I slept in many rooms, called myself by many names. I wandered through the quarters of the city like alluvium wanders the river banks. I knew every kind of joy, ascents of every hue. Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.