Quotes About Joy

Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

You can't take life too seriously. You just have to laugh your way through it.

A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

Laughter is what spills over the edge of an inspired life.

I could remember the house on Lexington Street, where the mortgage hung over our heads almost as tangibly as the roof, and we still managed to enjoy life.

Life is too short to rush around and be too busy for your kids.

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there.

It's very easy for me to laugh at myself and laugh at life.

There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever, unless you step off the wheel.

Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy and joy. They see the play of life.

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.

Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

O God, how lovely still is life!

I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved.

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

And sometimes such great quiet joy came to me that I would turn out my lights and cry, and a strange desire to die would come to me.

Nella chiara mattina domenicale camminavo lungo Olive Street. La città sembrava deserta, la strada era tranquilla. Mi fermai ad ascoltare. Sentivo qualcosa. Era il suono della felicità. Era il mio cuore che batteva dolcemente, ritmicamente. Un orologio, ecco cosa era, un piccolo congegno della felicità.

Jefferson was the rare student who came to college already knowing that there could be joy in studying.

Karina and Tho-orn, sitting in a tree-ee. Kay-eye-ess-ess-eye-en-gee.

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

When the ceremony was over, everybody felt a great deal better, for it had been a day of fun. They were better able now to see the greenness of the world, the wideness of the sacred day, the colors of the earth, and to set these in their minds.