Quotes About Joy

Progressives have finally convinced everyone to think alike, but without joy, satisfaction, or social harmony in return — just self-righteousness and misery.

Happiness flooded through him in warm tides.

Time reminds everybody of death, but who goes around day and night talking about it? Was this the source of that strange anxiety which sometimes comes over us, without our knowing why? Like some strange sister of joy, it was a tremor of fear, of ending, of all that begins and passes away. Was this the source of that odd loneliness we feel even when we aren't alone. and which is akin to stardust?

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.

I am happy. I am very happy. This morning when I woke up I felt good because the sun was shining. I felt good because I was a frog. And I felt good because I have you as a friend. I wanted to be alone. I wanted to think about how fine everything is.

To be making books for children is to be in a sort of state of grace.

They sat there, feeling happy together.

I cannot see anything." "Don't be silly," said Frog. "What you see is the clear warm light of April. And it means that we can begin a whole new year together, Toad. Think of it," said Frog. "We will skip through the meadows and run through the woods and swim in the river. In the evenings we will sit right here on this front porch and count the stars

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express,the more joy you experience.

Now all of a sudden there was joy, there was struggle, there was pain, there was happiness, there were pleasures, there were women, there was drama. Everything made it feel like "now we are really living!

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

De bloem van de eeuwige jeugd', mompelt hij. Er dringen zich meer herinneringen aan hem op, ook aangename. In het moeras van zijn geheugen zitten ook mooie herinneringen verstopt. Als je je geluk kunt herinneren, dan heeft het bestaan.

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Excessive happiness! I never knew there was such a disorder. I didn't know you could be too happy.

People think that an expensive car--a stimulus--will lead to a response of happiness. If they have a great paying job--the proper stimulus, they believe--then their response will be happiness. But what if the opposite is true? What if happiness is the stimulus and the response is whatever life brings from that happiness?

I whistled a great deal in those days

With more and more governments, however crude and experimental, dedicated to industrial democracy and universal brotherhood, the era of peace and joy in living will come on earth.

To be a happy warrior you must work to be a genuinely happy person.

Joy! A spark of fire from heaven . . . Drunk with fire we dare to enter, Holy One, inside your shrine.

It's difficult to describe adequately the depth of the rewards that one enjoys when relationships become your "official" source of meaning and fulfillment. People compare it with finding buried treasure, with the only sadness being that it didn't happen earlier in life.

To adopt parts of life that will make you happy, even if they don't make you special.

There is a lot to be mad about in America today, but we must never forget that our cause is a joyous one. Conservatives should be optimists who believe in people. We champion hope and opportunity. Fighting for people, helping those who need us, and saving the country—this is, and should be, happy work.