Quotes About Joy

He looked rather radiant in his rapture with her, and she was beaming back.

There was general laughter. It seemed to blend rather bewitchingly with the music around us, and the glare of so many candles.

Sometimes—not very often, in any life—there come days so perfect and seamless and golden that you remember them always. Almost everyone has them, though some, I think, have more than others. It just isn't given to everyone to simply love a day for its own sake. But they are the very coin of memory, and you can pull them out over and over again and fondle them, and spend them, and they are never depleted.

He turned back, and there was an odd light in his eyes. "Did I ever tell you that I can't live without you?" he said. "No," she said. "You can tell me about it when we survive." She could barely breathe, death was eating its way toward her, and she wanted to laugh out loud with the joy of it.

people notice the most beautiful dress every person can wear,......... a smile

There's my downfall, son. I mean with anyone, any one of these lady friends, I just can't resist a person I make happy.

Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.

This light-shouldered boy could jitterbug, old style, and would; he was more precious than gold, yea, than much fine gold. We jitterbugged...Only the strenth in our fingertips kept us alive. If they weakened or slipped, his fingertips or mine, we'd fall spinning backward across the length of the room and out through the glass French doors to the snowy terrace, and if we were any good we'd make sure we fell on the downbeat, snow or no snow.

Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized.

She laughed and broke into a run, racing out to grab handfuls of raindrops from the air, all alone in a world of diamonds.

Life was going to be one big party from now on, full of beautiful people. Like Tally Youngblood

Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.

I believe that you can't know courage without conquering fear, and you can't really know joy without knowing sadness.

Bob had found fundamentally foreknowledged form in the way Annie giggled

After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.

It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.

she read with undifferentiated glee . . .

happiness creeps up on you, does it not? You never see it arrive, but one day you hesitate and you are aware that there is something... additional

No people can live more happy than the Indians did in times of peace...Their lives were a continual round of pleasures.

My faith is firm. My mam called in the children and holding up my baby girl to the sun in the window she said to all them what I say to you, "This is the day the Lord hath made. Let us rejoice, be glad in it.

We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of the times, and to be extremely joyful, as St. Paul is constantly saying: 'Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say: Rejoice!' (Phil. 4:4). We rejoice because we have something which all the death and corruption of this world cannot take away, that is, the eternal Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of the times, and to be extremely joyful, as St. Paul is constantly saying: 'Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say: Rejoice!' (Phil. 4:4). We rejoice because we have something which all the death and corruption of this world cannot take away, that is, the eternal Kingdom of Jesus Christ." ? Seraphim Rose

There's a huge difference between being childlike and being childish. When we embrace joy and look at the world with fresh eyes we're being childlike. When we demand instant gratification and a guarantee that everything will be ok, we're only being childish.

Some people are gift givers by nature. They love their tribe, or they respect their art, and so they give. Not for an ulterior motive, but because it gives them joy.