Quotes About Joy

We're proving not only that we can do better software, but that joy is an asset.

One's best work comes when we are fully alive, happy, and inspired.

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

Sur terre, ce ne sont pas les occasions de s'émerveiller qui manquent, mais les émerveillés.

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

The assimilation of unconscious contents, in whatever form, leads not only to an enrichment of the conscious material but to an enrichment of libido, which makes itself felt, subjectively, as excitement, vivacity, and a joy that sometimes borders on intoxication; and, objectively, as a heightening of interest, a broadened and intensified capacity for work, mental alertness, etc.

We were happy. I know I ought to be able to tell you about it, yet I cannot, for while a nightmare will stay with you like hunger, when you awake from a happy dream, you have no memory of it.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Rather than constantly grumbling about "owning", "not owning" or "not possessing enough", why not delight in the healing enchantment of the little moments of every day. ( "Keeping up with the Joneses" )

Jagged Peak padded in. Holly hurried to greet him. "You're back!" Quiet Rain pushed herself to her paws, nudging Pebble Heart away. "My son!" Jagged Peak paused, eyes wide. "Quiet Rain?" Joy lit up his gaze and he hurried to greet her.

I feel like a bird!

Let him play peacefully and chase nothing fiercer than a ball of moss for as many moons as he can.

It's all right," he murmured into her ear. "Just think how beautiful our kits will be. They'll finally be able to kick you from the outside instead of the inside.

Minty stayed here when her housefolk's den was flooded, and she said she'd never had so much fun in her life.

We joked and laughed as though the whole world and its secrets belonged to us alone.

When the ball that was my heart ws broken,... laughter fell out".

If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born. My brother and I were born in London...but our descent, our interest and our joy were in the north country'. Quoted in The Tale of Beatrix Potter a Biography by Margaret Lane, First Edition p 32-33

Entre menos dependa nuestra felicidad de los demás, más fácil nos resulta ser felices.

Me tienes al borde la Felicidad todo el tiempo. Eres la mejor noticia del día y de la noche.

Cundo encuentras a tu alma cónyuge equivale a vivir el cielo, el paraíso, estando encarnado. Pocos seres humanos son tan afortunados.

Where there's no dogs, there's no meaningful life.

Kiss till the cow comes home.