Quotes About Joy

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. ~Rosalind Russell

There was sadness in everything—in the room, in the ringing bird-calls from the garden, in the lit, golden lawn beyond the window, with its single miraculous cherry-tree breaking in immaculate blossom and tossing long foamy sprays against the sky. She was sad to the verge of tears, and yet the sorrow was rich—a suffocating joy.

Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.

What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find happiness so easily." (Quoted from Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim)

When overcome with laughter, they lost all dignity, however, and choked, snorted, burped, wheezed, even farted, which made them ever more hysterical.

still kept. Rose and the girls were hooting

I suppose you could say this delights us although 'delight' is a word I rarely use. Delight seems insubstantial; happiness feels more grounded; ecstasy is what I shoot for; satisfaction is hardest to attain.

When I creep into our bed, there is the joy and relief of a person entering a secret dimension. Here, I shall be useless. The world can go on without me. Here I shall be held by love.

There was the residue of joy in their tattered yard.

It was this immense resignation to the shape of his life that opened him every day to the experience of joy.

Turning on the shower, he thought of the wildly fancy bathroom at Charlotte's house. It was funny to think of, but the bathrooms he liked weren't fancy; this one, and the one at Seymour's, and the one at Harry's. They weren't fancy, but they were home. He got in the shower. The one squirt that always went haywire hit him right in the eye. He laughed up into the warm water running over his ears.

Think thoughts that make you happy. Do things that make you feel good. Be with people who make you feel good. Eat things that make your body feel good. Go at a pace that makes you feel good.

Non...I am DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS!!!' And we both laughed like loons on loon tablets. I danced for ages round the house in my nuddy-pants. Also, I did this brilliant thing-I danced in the front window just for a second whilst Mr. Across the Road was drawing his curtains. He will never be sure if he saw a mirage or not. That is the kind of person I am. Not really the kind of person who goes and raises elks in Whakatane.

You make me laugh like a loon on loon tablets!

troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief ...

Happiness on earth would be to die with and while having pleasure … The rest is nothing at all, a fear that we don't dare avow

Jo began to dance a jig,...Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well I do believe the world is coming to an end!

life was in the moment, and love was in the moment, where ever you happen to be.

Not everyone glimpses paradise during their lifetime. Only the lucky ones.

she remembered some of the joy art used to bring her.

Hello, Popcorn," he said, petting the dog, whose tail was going faster than ever. "We

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.