Quotes About Joy

Hyacinth, who wept before sleep, had wept that night; he had wept too—had wept in joy and pain, and in joy at his pain. When tears were done and their heads rested on one pillow, she had said that no man had ever wept with her before. Two floors below them, their reflected images knelt in the fishpond at Thelxiepeia's feet, subsistent but invisible. There she would weep for him longer than they lived. He lowered his naked body into a rising pool, warm and scarcely less romantic.

When we're convinced we have to earn joy, we don't notice the ten thousand places in which it is already waiting, asking, waving for our attention.

Your body is the piece of the universe you've been given, the place where love and joy and grief happen, where happiness unfolds. Do you really want to keep believing that it's a horrible, ugly, lumpy thing? Do you really want to keep punching yourself like that?

Full is my heart of revelry and grace. But suddenly he fell in grievous case; For ever the latter end of joy is woe. God knows that worldly joys do swiftly go; And if a rhetorician could but write, He in some chronicle might well indite And mark it down as sovereign in degree.

Jesús de Sirach afirma: «Quien tiene el corazón alegre y contento se conserva vigoroso a través de los años, pero un corazón entristecido reseca los huesos».

Hard is his herte that loveth nought   85 In May, whan al this mirth is wrought;

You want to be grateful for every precious second, but you simply can't do it. It's not in human nature to live life to the fullest. Haven't you ever noticed that equal amounts of pain and joy are not, in fact, equal in duration? Pain drags on until you wonder if life will ever be bearable again; pleasure, though, once it's reached its peak, fades faster than a trodden gardenia, and your memory searches in vain for the sweet scent.

Be cheerful, my brother! he said. You're alive, and you're with friends!

La transgresión del orden es el principio del placer.

You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Whisky is liquid sunshine.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

A happy familiy is but an earlier heaven.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

The true joy in life is to be a force of fortune instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby!

The secret of a happy life is to do work you enjoy and then you'll be too busy to know whether you're happy or not.

The true joy in life is to be a force of Fortune instead of a feverish, selfish little child of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

El hecho de que un creyente sea más feliz que un escéptico no es más relevante que el que un borracho sea más feliz que un sobrio.

This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one: being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

Life is not measured by the breathes you take, but by the moments that take your breathe away.

People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.