Quotes About Joy

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in sadness, and bring pain afterwards, would you choose to have that happiness or would you avoid it?

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.' She

The size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

If you have a chance at real happiness, whatever the cost, you have to take it.

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering. -Farid

I don't know about the universe, but I'll make a pact with you. I hereby promise that I'll always dance in the rain at least once, in every one of my monsoons.

She walked out with Prabaker, and I spun around on one foot, whispering a shout of joy while I did an excited little dance.

Children played everywhere. Men carried water in buckets. Men made repairs to one of the huts. And everywhere that I looked, people smiled and laughed.

And there were more smiles in the eyes on those crowded streets than in any other place I'd ever known.

It was the kind of laugh that hunted down funny things, and killed them stone dead.

Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

Is love, yes, when a terrible feeling makes you happy?

looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.

This is what fun is like, said Rain, almost to herself.

I played in three countries. I played in two World Series. But I never found anything to match the joy and the laughter those years with the Eagles brought me. The city and county loved us.

When you're a kid, you just hope you make it to the big leagues. So to get to go say you're going to play in the World Series, it's an incredibly special moment. Up there with getting married and having kids, it's right up there with one of the best days of my life.

You don't get a chance to go to the playoffs and World Series very often, but to be able to experience it with the people you love most in the world is really fun.

When news of the first plane's hitting the World Trade Center reached them, bin Laden's followers exploded with joy. But shrewder members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan realized that the attacks might not be the stunning victory that bin Laden, and many in the West, took them to be.

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.

How do you know someone is a grandparent? They've got milk stains on every shirt from burping babies. Their pants are worn out at the knees from crawling around giving pony rides. They have 2,842 pictures of the grandkids on their smart phone and not one photo of their spouse.

I am very happy when people write that they have worn out my books, or that they are held together by Scotch tape. I consider that the ultimate compliment.