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Quotes About Joy

Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.
~ Sheryl Crow
if it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?
~ Sheryl Crow
If it makes you happy, then why are you so sad?
~ Sheryl Crow
Life Infinite Beyond words, this no-thingness within, Which I've become. So to remain Only one thing's needed: Zen sitting. I think, breathe with my whole body - Marvellous. The joy's so pure, It's beyond lovemaking, anything. I can see, live anywhere, everywhere. I need nothing, not even life.
~ Shinkichi Takahashi
Cloud I'm cheerful, whatever happens, a puff in sky -- what splendor exists, I'm there.
~ Shinkichi Takahashi
He was familiar enough with pleasure to know it might become jaded or reluctant; but joy was literally foreign to him, a word he would never easily pronounce, an exhilaration that had some other reckless nationality. For this reason, Caro's wholeness in love, her happiness in it, made her exotic.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Oh Constance, we are so happy.
~ Shirley Jackson
And we held each other in the dark hall and laughed, with the tears running down our cheeks and echoes of our laughter going up the ruined stairway to the sky. 'I am so happy,' Constance said at last, gasping. 'Merricat, I am so happy.' 'I told you that you would like it on the moon.
~ Shirley Jackson
Slowly the pattern of our days grew, and shaped itself into a happy life.
~ Shirley Jackson
They stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed.
~ Shirley Jackson
I am caught in a kind of wonder, I am still with joy.
~ Shirley Jackson
I could help her in her shop, Eleanor thought; she loves beautiful things and I would go with her to find them. We could go anywhere we pleased, to the edge of the world if we liked, and come back when we wanted to.
~ Shirley Jackson
A thought of the world swept over her, of people living around her, singing, dancing, laughing; it seemed unexpectedly and joyfully that in all this great world of the city there were a thousand places where she might go and live in deep happiness, among friends who were waiting for her here in the stirring crowds of the city.
~ Shirley Jackson
Eleanor waved back, sitting in joyful loneliness to finish her coffee while the gay stream tumbled along below her.
~ Shirley Jackson
In delay there lies no plenty, present mirth hath present laughter.
~ Shirley Jackson
It's spring, you're young, you're lovely, you have a right to be happy. Come back into the world.
~ Shirley Jackson
How happy we all are, she thought, and how lucky that I came at last!
~ Shirley Jackson
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
~ Shirley MacLaine
One drop of joy plus courage becomes passion, which enables you to take effective action without thought. One drop of joy plus discipline becomes empathy, the ability to know that your emotions are real and all those around you are real, which then restores your God-consciousness.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!
~ Shiro Amano
DANCE, WATER DANCE!
~ Shiro Amano
He congratulated himself and wished himself a year of bliss.
~ Sholem Aleichem
But it's nice having children. It wouldn't faze me at all having ten, fifteen, even seventy-five children. There's only one drawback. They got mouths!
~ Sholem Aleichem
And what's more fun than a market full of melons? Wherever you look, there's a honeydew or a watermelon
~ Sholom Aleichem