Quotes About Joy

does there exist, is there a man on earth who seizes more joy than just a dream, a vision?

What love, what call of the heart can touch my ears with joy? Nothing, friends.

One word frees us from all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Thus to get the princess, to live with her joyfully and happily day in and day out (for it is also conceivable that the knight of resignation might get the princess, but that his soul had discerned the impossibility of their future happiness), thus to live joyfully and happily every instant by virtue of the absurd, every instant to see the sword hanging over the head of the beloved, and yet to find repose in the pain of resignation, but joy by virtue of the absurd—this is marvellous.

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Tenía una confidente íntima -mi melancolía-, y en medio de mi alegría, en medio de mi trabajo, ella me atrae, me llama a un lado aunque físicamente yo permanezca en el lugar. Es la más fiel amante que haya conocido.... Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers

I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.

You cannot create a life of fulfillment, joy, and meaning while you are barricading yourself from others and from the opportunities Life offers you.

I'm basically a really happy person. My life is nuts, but it feels complete.

To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.

My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life.

It's important to focus on the good in life and appreciate it.

Play is where life lives

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

We gathered the wild-flowers. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight; As thro' the field we rov'd. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight.

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

Life is what you make of it. There's always fun and laughs right under your nose if you're willing to open your eyes to see it.

I'm happy and I have a great life.

You can't go through life not listening to music.

Sometimes I think it's easier to think about being happier, for what ever that means to you then worrying about what is happiness and what would life be if I finally achieved this ultimate happiness?

Don't take life so seriously. Have fun. Enjoy your time on this planet.