Quotes About Joy

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man.

This kind of consolation from the world's deceit is very common. Mothers obtain it from their children, and men from their dogs. Some men even do so from their walking-sticks, which is just as rational. How is it that we can take joy to ourselves in that we are not deceived by those who have not attained the art to deceive us?

Everything smiled on her with gilded dimples, and these were the smiles she valued. As

It is a very sad thing for any human being to have to say to himself, — with an earnest belief in his own assertion, — that all the joy of this world is over for him; and is the sadder because such conviction is apt to exclude the hope of other joy.

never so solemn a hermit; but a bright face, a true trusting heart, a strong arm, and an humble mind, might do much in teaching those around him that men may be gay and yet not profligate, that women may be devout and yet not dead to the world.

the principal duty which a parent owed to a child was to make him happy.

And I hope you will be happy — and make others happy." "I hope I shall," said she. "But always think most about the latter, my dear. Think about the happiness of those around you, and your own will come without thinking. You understand that; do you not?

Who were the happy people that were driven neither by ambition, nor poverty, nor greed, nor the cross purposes of unhappy love, to stifle and trample upon their feelings?

CHAPTER XXXVI MISTLETOE

Never mind love. After all, what is it? The dream of a few weeks. That is all its joy. The disappointment of a life is its Nemesis. Who was ever successful in true love? Success in love argues that the love is false. True love is always despondent or tragical. Juliet loved, Haidee loved, Dido loved, and what came of it? Troilus loved and ceased to be a man.

Leigh says that colors are the smiles of nature." "Imagine

Blood-red Roses Tell You of Happiness'.

Look, bimba—In my country we have a—how you say?—a proverb. Amare, cantare, mangiare.—Loving, singing, eating—these are God's three gifts. You don' need more.

there was a man and a woman who came together naked and unashamed, proudly bestowing on each other the beauty of their bodies and thereby finding ineffable joy.

out in the world there was all the untried beckoning enchantments:dancing, sensuous music, merriment--and love.

For them both a thousand lamps were lit.

I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

Le bonheur est à ceux qui se suffisent à eux-mêmes.

Happiness is a state of activity.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

There is one end we all have – not in virtue of being rational, but simply in virtue of being human being – and that is happiness.

The life of active virtue is essentially pleasant.

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

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