Quotes About Joy

There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.

I love being asked to identify plants, and I don't know which gives me more pleasure: to know what they are or not to know what they are.

If only people realized what they had in life," she told me one day, "they would not be able to contain their joy!

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive… so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. —JOSEPH CAMPBELL

He freed the song of your soul.

What is keeping you from feeling the rapture? I can assure you, you won't find the answer in a lighted room. What stands between you and a full-bodied life can be found only in the shadows.

the God that the Sufi poet Hafiz writes about: Not the God of names, Nor the God of don'ts, Nor the God who ever does Anything weird, But the God who only knows four words And keeps repeating them, saying: "Come dance with Me.

Love is the light that casts no shadow.

on the tiny counter. "Playing? If that's what you

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

She loved being alive and in the world; being alive and in the world with her was like dancing with someone who really knew how to lead.

This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending.

mum's dress. mum loved big parties. she loved dressing up and champagne bubbles tickling her nose, and dancing with her arms above her head, shoes thrown to the edges of the dance floor, and shouting inane happy things at people.

life's too short, after all, isn't it? not to do the things you want - the things that make you happy? hannah had been thinking that quite a lot t. oday

I'M NEVER BORED ... I've got a clitoris ;-)

begun. "This is going to be the absolute best day ever!

Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.

Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy. Being happy makes you want to talk, to go over everything, to share it so you can remember it all over again.

This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing.

She did the "we have mysterious hand gestures that make us giggle" thing.

This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple it is, and how amazing.

I sit next to Caleb, waiting and thinking about what life really is. About how it has its own will. How it shows you things that rip you open, tear your world apart. How it unfolds even when you think it can't. How it takes you places you never thought you'd be. Shows you things you never knew you wanted to see. Brings you pain - and joy.

I know what it's like to wake up in the morning, every morning, with a smile in my heart.

He put the blinker on, pulled out onto the avenue. "Well, that was nice," she said, sitting back. They had fun together these days, they really did. It was as if marriage had been a long, complicatd meal, and now there was this lovely dessert.