Quotes About Joy

I'm really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts

Life is not being sure what will come next or how it will come. We guess at everything we do. We take leap after leap in the dark and that's the joy of living and the beauty of faith. When we grow tired, when we sit still, that's when we begin to die.... One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!

i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world

Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.

Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.

But we were in the same place at the same time in our lives, and for that alone I was inexpressibly buoyant and a few hundred years' worth of grateful.

His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks. The traffic signal that said walk the second you got there, that happened to every person in the course of a day.

It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.

Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures.

Live, Laugh, Love

What's the occasion? she asked. He kissed her ear. I've got a gorgeous woman who's going to be my bride. She laughed. You have that every night. That's why I want to celebrate.

maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. maybe its about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures.

Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place.

Maybe happiness didn't have to be about big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures.

Maybe you think you'll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn't work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It's by living that you live more.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. —Stanislaw J. Lec

Love is unpredictable. It can be painful. It can be wonderful.

Have fun and be careful!

ROLLING After the parade

People?" Claire burst out laughing. "Silly, we're not canimals.

And we all started laughing again.