Quotes About Elation

There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the level of human sounds and habitations, among the wild expanses and colossal features of Nature, we are thrilled in our loneliness with a strange fear and elation – an ascent above the reach of life's expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings.

the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.

C'è in tutti noi un qualcosa che somiglia alla letizia.

Something large and happy has unfolded in my chest, erupting in a smile that won't quit. I can't remember ever feeling so light-hearted. Or is my heart full? Or bursting? Not aching, that's for sure.

I knew Frédérique wouldn't write. But I persevered in the pleasure of taking my sadness to the limit, the way one does with some practical joke. The pleasure of disappointment. It wasn't new to me. I had been relishing it ever since I was eight years old, a boarder in my first, religious, school. And perhaps they were the best years, I thought. Those years of discipline. There was a kind of elation, faint but constant throughout all those days of discipline, the sweet days of discipline.

There was only joy, awe, and amazement.

Sometimes you're just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy all rolled into one.

The very resolve to help and from now on to be of use to others inspired me with a kind of enthusiasm. In my elation I felt like singing, like doing something quite crazy. It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

Why not laugh again, and let your joy be my monument?

There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

Love is quivering happiness.

Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now.

She was happier than she had been in a long time.

I feel myself quite wild with excitement.

My fear fell from me as if it had been a vaporous garment which dissolved in the warmth.

The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up.

The Great Romance is for you. If only one of you would have followed me, the heavens would not have been able to contain my cries of joy.

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

Gotcha!" shrieked Horrid Henry. He'd won!!

Joy is a perception of elation which keeps us moving with life.

Be a burst of joy.

You are my dark turned to bright, the day into my light. A vision of splendour to my lights, light.

embrace of the kind of profound exuberance