Quotes About Joy

I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

Now I knew that joy was a kind of fearlessness, a letting go of expectations that the world should be anything other than what it was.

But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.

If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.

How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can't make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables

Anne watched them as she talked and somehow felt that wind and stars and fireflies were all tangled up together into something unutterably sweet and enchanting.

I hardly dare believe it after that horrible day last summer. I have had a heart ache ever since then. But it is gone now." "This baby will take Joy's place." Said Marilla. "Oh, no no no Marilla. He can't, nothing can ever do that. He has his own place, my dear wee man child. But little Joy has hers, and always will have it.

There was a dance of great plummy boughs in the western wind. And there was a sound not heard for a long time-Marigold's laughter as she waved goodnight to Sylvia over the Green Gate.

How jolly it was not to hate anybody anymore. Life and she were friends again.

It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it is such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then would there?

Afinal, creio que os dias melhores e mais doces não são aqueles em que acontece algo muito esplêndido, maravilhoso e empolgante, mas sim aqueles que trazem os pequenos e simples prazeres, um após o outro sem pressa, como pérolas soltando-se de um colar.

I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string

I heard a song across the sea. As sweet and faint as echoes are, And glimpsed a poignant happiness. No care of earth might mar. Dear God, our life is beautiful In every splendid gift it brings, But most I thank Thee humbly for the joy of little things.

Pues yo creo que esperar las cosas con ilusión es precisamente la mitad de su placer

Czy to nie przyjemnie, ?e jest tak du?o rzeczy, które jeszcze poznamy? To wÅ'aÅ›nie sprawia, ?e ja siÄ™ tak cieszÄ™ ?yciem... Å›wiat jest taki ciekawy... Nie byÅ'by taki ani w poÅ'owie, gdybyÅ›my wszystko o nim wiedzieli, prawda?

Är det inte roligt att leva en sån här dag, så säg! Jag tycker synd om dem som ännu inte är födda och får njuta av den. Nog för de kan få vara med om andra härliga dagar, men just den här får de inte...

Truly, we had had a delectable summer; and, having had it, it was ours forever. The gods themselves cannot recall their gifts. They may rob us of our future and embitter our present, but our past they may not touch. With all its laughter and delight and glamour it is our eternal possession.

You've learned the secret of happiness.

The daisies that dance and twinkle so Were the laughter of children in long ago.

Comienzo a sentir que vale la pena vivir, ya que existe la risa. -Stella. Ana de la isla.

El humor es el más picante de los condimentos en el festín de la existencia. Ríanse de sus errores pero aprendan de ellos; alégrense en sus penas pero ganen fuerza con ellas; hagan un chiste de las dificultades, pero vénzanlas. Ana de la isla.

Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good