Quotes About Joy

I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.

Our two dogs, Scamper (an ancient beagle-basset) and Tinker (a small, friendly dog of indeterminate breed), provided some diversion.

but Anna could see the benefits of her efforts much more concretely and immediately in the progress and joy of her students.

You know what's fun? Christmas lights. They are twinkly an pretty and they make me happy, because they are twinkly and pretty.

There's death and life, you see. We all shine on. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. ...Somebody loves you.

We chase wild dreams and long for all that eludes us, when the greatest joys are within our grasp, if we can only recognize them.

Life is for living.

Let's make one perfect day. And if it feels right, let's make another one tomorrow.

In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

She is all peace, all quiet, All passionate desires, the eloquent thunder Of new, glad suns, shouting aloud for joy

Soy tan feliz, que a veces paréceme que vivo suspendida en el aire, que mis pies no tocan la tierra, que huelo la eternidad y respiro el airecillo que sopla más allá del sol. No duermo. ¡Ni qué falta me hace dormir!

Vamos—dijo el viajero lleno de gozo—, humanidad tenemos.

Subsistirán las corridas de toros mientras exista en el alma española propensión a la alegría. El día que no haya toros los españoles tendrán que inventarlos

Gracias a Dios!, al fin salió esa loca.

Qué sientes tú cuando estás alegre? —¿Cuándo estoy libre, contigo, solos los dos en el campo? —Sí. —Pues siento que me nace dentro del pecho una frescura, una suavidad dulce... —¡Ahí te quiero ver! ¡Madre de Dios! Pues ya sabes cómo brilla el sol.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

I have found a truth that humanity needs, that brings unspeakable joy to human hearts and homes, that brightens all the life, that assuages sorrow, that dispels care, that kills the materialistic spirit of our age, and lifts mankind into noble thought and life.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.